Incineration of waste
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Incineration of waste
（Report / Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ; Chairman, John Houghton, 17th）（Cm, 2181）
HMSO, [1993]
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"Presented to Parliament by Command of her Majesty, May 1993"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
34 million tonnes of municipal waste, 30-40 million tonnes of sewage sludge, and possibly 6 million tonnes of chemical and clinical wastes are produced in the UK each year. This comprehensive report deals with incineration and its role in relation to this waste. From their study the Commission has come up with 35 recommendations which include a national strategy for waste management; that a levy be applied to all waste deposited in landfill sites; that government should give targets to waste disposal authorities for the recovery of energy from municipal waste; and that waste disposal facilities should wherever possible be on sites which allow wastes to be moved by rail or water transport rather than road.
Table of Contents
- The regulation of waste incineration
- Present and planned use of incineration
- Emissions from incineration plants
- Energy recovery
- Health issues
- Other forms of environmental impact
- The future of the technology
- The place of incineration in a waste management strategy
- Conclusions and recommendations.
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