EPA Offers Amendments For Large WTE Facilities

Date: December 7, 2005

Source: News Room

The EPA has reviewed its New Source Performance Standards and Emissions Guidelines for municipal waste incinerators that burn more than 250 tons of waste per day. Proposed amendments to the guidelines would require that large municipal WTE plants continue to operate at the same high levels, but would simplify the implementation of those guidelines. Introduced in 1995, the guidelines reduced emissions of dioxin and furan by more than 99 percent; mercury, cadmium, and lead by more than 93 percent; and sulfur dioxide and hydrogen chloride by more than 91 percent.

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