Category: Incineration

For every 100 tons burned in an incin­er­a­tor, about 30 tons of tox­ic ash are produced. This is evi­denced by the data from var­i­ous incin­er­a­tors. Below is data from trash incin­er­a­tors in Penn­syl­va­nia, Mary­land, and Vir­ginia, where state waste dis­pos­al data­bas­es pro­vide the ton­nages burned and tons of ash dis­posed. Penn­syl­va­nia now pro­vides this raw…

Cov­an­ta’s trash incin­er­a­tor in Mont­gomery Coun­ty, Mary­land is the largest air indus­tri­al pol­luter in the coun­ty, by far. Fol­low­ing a mas­sive waste pile fire that burned for near­ly two weeks in late 2016, we’ve been sup­port­ing our mem­ber group, Sug­ar­loaf Cit­i­zens’ Asso­ci­a­tion, to close this incin­er­a­tor for good. We worked with them and oth­er local…