Some environmental or waste treatment of Robert Ross Industrial Disposal Company will eventually transport the waste to the incinerator or cement kiln treatment center. In 2009, it mainly engaged in three garbage incineration businesses: Clean Harbor, WTI Legacy and Ross Incineration Service. Clean Harbours bought many smaller independent facilities, and the United States gradually had 5-7 incinerators. WTI Heritage has an incinerator in the southeast corner of Ohio. West Virginia, West Virginia across the Ohio River.
Some older generation incinerators in the United States have been closed, of which 186 MSW incinerators were closed in the 1990s, and only 89 were left in 2007. In addition, there were still 6,200 medical waste incinerators in 1998, and only15 were left in 2003. From 1996 to 2007, no new incinerator was built. The main reason is: 1. Economic factors: With the increase of large-scale low-cost regional landfills and the relatively low electricity price at present, incinerators cannot provide fuel (that is, garbage) competition in the United States. 2.) Tax policy: From 1990 to 2004, the United States cancelled the tax credit for power plants that generate garbage.
In the United States and Canada, there is a new interest in the technology of burning garbage and converting other garbage into energy. In 2004, garbage incineration in the United States was eligible for a tax credit for renewable energy production. The project to increase the production capacity of existing factories is under way, and the municipal government once again evaluates the construction of incineration plants, instead of continuing to use landfill sites to treat urban garbage. However, many of these projects continue to face political opposition, although arguments on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening air pollution control and recycling incineration ashes have been updated. Anti-burning actions in the suburbs of London, Murray Valley, Lake Ontario and other communities have come and gone.
Due to a large number of landfills, the technology of waste management industry in Britain has fallen far behind other European countries. The EU landfill directive urges the British government to implement legislation on waste management, including landfill tax and landfill allowance trading scheme. The purpose of the law is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by landfill by using other garbage disposal methods. The position of the British government is that waste incineration will gradually play a more important role in dealing with municipal waste and energy supply. In 2008, there were more than 65,438+000 places in Britain that could be used to build waste incineration sites in the future. British NGOs have also marked these locations on the map.
In Russia, in early 2008, Greenpeace and the Green Cross jointly launched a civil activity against waste incineration, and more than 1 13000 residents signed a protest against waste incineration, demanding that the construction of a new waste incineration plant be postponed.
In the Philippines and other countries, all forms of garbage incineration have been banned.
In China, people's rights protection activities in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing, Nanchang and other cities are one after another. The vast number of environmental volunteers and NGOs have been paying close attention.
In international law, three principles have also been formulated to resist waste incineration, namely, early warning, prevention and limitation of cross-border effects.