Sentences with phrase «incinerator facility»

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Some had been found in tubs at the incinerator and some at the Bio Care facility.

We operate the largest number of hazardous waste incinerators, landfills, wastewater and other treatment facilities, and treatment, storage and disposal facilities in North America.

The release also warned that the city was considering creating «waste to energy» facilities, which would use incinerators and «whose siting may be restricted to environmentally overburdened communities of color» — like Hunts Point.

Others fear that eastern environmental facilities, from incinerators to sewers, will not allow them to meet Western standards for pollution and safety.

Mike Ewall is the founder and director of Energy Justice Network, a national support network for grassroots community groups fighting dirty energy and waste industry facilities such as coal power plants, ethanol plants, natural gas facilities, landfills and incinerators of every sort.

In practice, according to Beth Ambrose, senior consultant at Jones Lang LaSalle, the property specialist, that means the use of a variety of new and old technologies, from solar panels and wind turbines to recycling facilities and incinerators to produce energy from rubbish.

African American communities, including workers, are most likely to be exposed to the pollution from fossil fuel based energy production through coal plants, oil and gas refineries, as well as pollution from energy production through nuclear facilities and waste incinerators.

Under the UN program, incinerators for HFC - 23 are installed at 19 refrigerant facilities, mostly in China and India but also in South Korea, Argentina and Mexico, to help control the super greenhouse gas.

One of their projects, now under construction, is a giant waste - to - energy (the modern cleaner sounding name for a garbage incinerator) facility in Copenhagen that has a park and ski run on the roof, (lots more on TreeHugger here) and was designed to have a big smoke ring puff up every time the building released a tonne of carbon dioxide.

John Doherty, commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation said in regards to the option of burning trash in incinerators that, «not only did it not meet the EPA's air standards, it is also a nuisance to the neighborhoods near the facility.»

• Make environmentally - friendly policies for the Games in the areas of procurement and construction binding • Apply water saving technologies across the city • [Pursue a zero - waste policy instead of building] more landfill sites and incinerators • Introduce an internationally recognizable timber procurement policy, such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard, for the construction material used during the Games • Eradicate climate - damaging HFC technology in some Olympic facilities • Make environmental data and certification of Olympic venues fully transparent.