MATTHEWS, N.C. — A biomedical waste incinerator in Matthews is officially shutting its doors. MNC Holdings shut down the incinerator on May 6, 2011, but started it up for a short time in March 2012 to ...
Fearing the potential of air pollution and perhaps even toxic emissions, a group of residents around the Reworld trash-to-energy plant in Bristol will call on environmental regulators to block plans ...
Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University plan to divert the small amount of medical waste that they send to an incinerator in South Baltimore, after state environmental officials flagged ...
Background and epidemiology: Hospitals generate fluid, gaseous and solid waste, with solids accounting for the bulk of it. The average North American hospital produces about 9 kg of solid waste per ...