An Assessment and Management Recommendations
| Autor: | David Marrack |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
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Pollution
Atmospheric Science Flue gas Engineering Environmental Engineering Municipal solid waste Waste management Mobile incinerator business.industry media_common.quotation_subject General Engineering Incineration Waste treatment Hazardous waste General Earth and Planetary Sciences business General Environmental Science Waste disposal media_common |
| Zdroj: | JAPCA. 38:1309-1311 |
| ISSN: | 0894-0630 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08940630.1988.10467024 |
| Popis: | Chlorinated plastics (PVC) accounted for 9.4 percent of the weight of “red bag”, supposedly infectious, waste from two community 150- and 98-bed hospitals. The hydrochloric acid, dioxins and furans generated during the burning of this red bag waste are important air pollutants. In this waste, PVC provides much of the organic chloride for the dioxins and furans generated. Their concentrations are least in flue gases from those plants with BACT design, flue gas clean up and management techniques—the most constrained incinerators. The many manually-fed, small categorical red bag incinerators associated with hospitals have no flue gas clean-up systems and represent minimally constrained incinerators. Their toxic stack emissions are considered a significant community health hazard. The evidence that the contents of red bag waste is infectious to such a degree that it cannot be disposed of as municipal solid waste without endangering the public with infectious diseases is not reflected in the relevant hospital ... |
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