Emissions from and control of incinerators burning municipal solid waste with hazardous wastes

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987 · Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association; (USA)

OSTI ID:5049404

Tessitore, J L; Cross, F L ^[1]; Hesketh, H E ^[2]

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1. Cross/Tessitore and Associates, Orlando, FL (US)
2. Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL (USA)

Presently, many municipalities are installing mass burn incineration systems to achieve volume/weight reduction of municipal solid waste (MSW). This current approach is based on the following facts: landfills are under increased environmental restrictions to control leachate and potential groundwater contamination, unavailability of additional land, and increasing public pressure limiting expansion of existing landfills. All of these, have also significantly increased landfilling costs for MSW. Additionally, there may be some other considerations for MSW incineration systems. Some communities are finding that some of their existing sanitary landfills (SLF) are contaminated with hazardous materials and they are giving consideration toward excavation of these sites and burning this waste along with their normal MSW in a municipal incinerator system. An example of such a community is presented.

• OSTI ID: 5049404
• Report Number(s): CONF-870695--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association; (USA) Journal Volume: 3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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