Even medical waste, theoretically controlled by stringent rules that require hospitals to operate incinerators, is routinely dumped with regular municipal garbage.
When properly designed and operated, incinerators and other thermal technologies reduce municipal and industrial wastes in volume and change their physical and chemical properties to make these wastes less toxic and more easily manageable.
The Miami police arrested Mr. Damiano in the raid and charged him with operating an incinerator without a proper license, a second-degree misdemeanor.
And if the Port Authority is to make money on the project, other critics say, then the corporation operating the incinerator, American Ref-Fuel of Essex County, will be making even more.
Instead of picking a site first, the commission should find the potential private companies that are interested in operating the incinerator.
Kent Burton, a senior vice president with Covanta Energy, a company that operates two incinerators on Long Island, dismissed the accusation that incinerators are big polluters.
The new site will be operated by Veolia, which currently owns seven operational incinerators, which they call "energy recovery facilities", with a further site under construction in Staffordshire.
The station is one of the most modern incinerators operating in England; it is noted for its innovative operation.
Officials of American Ref-Fuel, which operates the incinerator in East Garden City, have proposed a a similar incinerator on the site of the former Shoreham nuclear plant.
For England, we evaluated all 11 municipal waste incinerators operating during 2001.
