Hello BITOG members here and wondering if any of you know of any incenerators still in use in your area. There are 2 in my fathers hometown northeast of here. What can a incenerator burn also? I hear people here in my area and my fathers area tell me that a incenerator can burn/incenerate just about darn near anything except metal. Let me hear what you folks know or have remembered about these things.
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Check out the "Dirty Jobs" episode with Mike Rowe.
Airports use them to burn trash that comes in on international flights so that they minimize the biologicals that come in to only those that the people have on/in them.
Airports use them to burn trash that comes in on international flights so that they minimize the biologicals that come in to only those that the people have on/in them.
For many years in the '60's we had a Warm Morning nat. gas incinerator to dispose of our garbage. This was before our village had a weekly garbage pickup. You turned on the burner/timer control to set the time to burn based on the amount on garbage in the chamber. We used it up until the 80's when our village started weekly pickup. With the fire brick lining, that thing sat in my basement until I finally had it carried out a couple years ago.(it weighed a TON!) Any burning of an incinertor is prohibited today as I understand the EPA laws.FWIW--Oldtommy
We had one at work up until about ten years ago, it was large enough to put over fifty garbage bags in. It would burn everything but steel. We also had a smaller one for burning human limbs. It took about fours hours to turn a leg into dust.
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I remember our grade school had one. It made sense to have one where lots of paper and small milk cartons were generated. (We has two cartons of milk per pupil per day in the early grades).
I now use my fireplace as an incinerator. For those that say it pollutes the air, I think it's better than putting stuff in the landfill or using city resources (i.e., diesel trucks) to recycle. Plus the air has a better chance of cleaning itself than a landfill, which lasts forever.
I now use my fireplace as an incinerator. For those that say it pollutes the air, I think it's better than putting stuff in the landfill or using city resources (i.e., diesel trucks) to recycle. Plus the air has a better chance of cleaning itself than a landfill, which lasts forever.
EPA has a bullseye on incinerators. They have made it dang near impossible to comply with the new emissions standards on ANY incinerator, hospitals included, that is not is a rural area. I had to close the hospital incinerator down where I work because of the stringent stack testing. Those things pump out a lot of furans and dioxins.
Incinerators if designed properly would solve our non-recyclable garbage problem and provide an endless power resource and produce very little toxins. These things should be numerous enough to eliminate any landfill on the planet.
Burying our trash has got to be one of the stupidest ideas mankind has ever puked.
Burying our trash has got to be one of the stupidest ideas mankind has ever puked.
Hello guys and I dont buy into the EPA regulating the use of incenerators at all. We used a waste oil burner at my work that had a chamber that cooked oil filters and burned cartridge oil filters very cleanly. This boiler had so many scrubbers in its stack it was unreal. Also I know friends in Harrisburg and eastern pa that still use incenerators and they have 1-3 scrubbers on/in them. I hate landfills myself and would rather use a incenerator honestly. My father uses a old coal furnace with a homemade and bigger than original kidney or "heat exchanger" on it that can burn just about anything except steel or metal or haz mat stuff. He burns waste or dirty coal and some good hard coal or whatever people give him for welding, fixing things etc. He installed 3 scrubbers on his and I will say you dont see much smoke out of it honestly.
IMO the problem or the lack of, is that landfill is a lot cheaper than incinerators. Good incinerators needs to be very hot, so I'm not sure how the older, smaller local ones can do it to today's standard.
As far as I know a lot of places still use it, but why bother when landfill is cheap.
As far as I know a lot of places still use it, but why bother when landfill is cheap.
My trash goes to one! My town pays $40/ton to get rid of it then I buy it back at 16 cents a kilowatt-hour!
MERC, "Maine Energy Recovery Company", in Biddeford burns the region's trash.
I used to live in the area and you could smell a slightly sweet smell, like rot without the feces, in the air.
Residents are constantly complaining about the smell, which is of course not scientific, as its stack emissions are legal. So they have stupid countermeasures like a guy who hoses off the driveway in case a trash truck dripped a little. They'll never appease these NIMBYs and it's interesting they keep trying.
MERC, "Maine Energy Recovery Company", in Biddeford burns the region's trash.
I used to live in the area and you could smell a slightly sweet smell, like rot without the feces, in the air.
Residents are constantly complaining about the smell, which is of course not scientific, as its stack emissions are legal. So they have stupid countermeasures like a guy who hoses off the driveway in case a trash truck dripped a little. They'll never appease these NIMBYs and it's interesting they keep trying.
Usually after a few beers I just make my own incinerator...
Washing machine took a dump, so my friend and I filled it with various flammables from around the house and set it on fire. Afterward the burned out shell was taken to the metal recycler. Nothing went to the landfill, and I actually made a buck or two off the scrap. Of course the main benefit was the entertainment value. Not so sure about the carbon footprint of this practice though.
Washing machine took a dump, so my friend and I filled it with various flammables from around the house and set it on fire. Afterward the burned out shell was taken to the metal recycler. Nothing went to the landfill, and I actually made a buck or two off the scrap. Of course the main benefit was the entertainment value. Not so sure about the carbon footprint of this practice though.
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