[Durham INC] [durhamenviro] FYI: Burlington Times-News: Local documentary will raise air quality concerns

Sat Aug 28 08:29:59 EDT 2010

This system has been available for years and has expend or become more efficient. Medical waste is easily and safely disposed of in plasma conversion

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

STARTECH ENVIRONMENTAL PLASMA CONVERTER INSTALLATION FIRST IN POLAND AND FIRST IN EUROPE 

 WILTON, CT, April 7, 2008 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Startech Environmental Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: STHK), a fully reporting, internationally recognized Award-winning Environment and Energy company announced today that "waste2greenenergy (w2ge)," the Company's distributor for the United Kingdom and for the Republic of Poland, intends to install its first Plasma Converter System at a designated facility in Bytom, Poland to process ten-tons of industrial waste per day. 

Joseph F. Longo, Startech president, said, "The Bytom installation is especially important to the Company because it is the opener to the entire European market including the large market in Poland that has been a long time in development. The Plasma Converter, purchased by w2ge last August and being manufactured now, will be the first in Europe." 

John Cameron, w2ge's Chief Operating Officer said, "We are very excited regarding the prospects for Startech's Plasma Converter System. We have a very strong pipeline of projects in Poland and anticipate the Bytom facility being the first of many Plasma Converter Systems which we will install in Poland. Poland is one of the fastest growing economies in the European Union and is a key market for w2ge. Poland has embraced plasma technology in its environmental laws as one of the preferred technologies for the safe disposal of industrial wastes. Bytom will be the first operational Plasma Converter System in the European Union and will operate as a flagship for Startech's unique Plasma Converter technology. 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Melissa Rooney 
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  Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:53 PM
  Subject: [durhamenviro] FYI: Burlington Times-News: Local documentary will raise air quality concerns

  Please see below, regarding the medical waste incinerator on Graham-Haw River border. And please forward this to anyone you know who lives in this area, so they are aware of what's going on.
  Melissa (Rooney)

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  *Dear Friends and Neighbors: Please consider posting a comment to this page. Also, please consider sending a tax-deductible contribution to help pay for a full-page ad c/o our chapter Clean Air Now (CAN) announcing the public hearing re: new rules for medical waste incinerators in NC. The ad will be published in this Sunday’s edition of the Burlington Times-News. Send your check to: Heather Bjork, CAN, 216 Fieldstone Dr. , Burlington , NC 27215-4637 . Your contribution will go towards cleaner air for NC – and especially for Alamance and Mecklenburg Counties , home to three of NC’s medical waste incinerators which are polluting our air and environment. Please share this article with your lists, friends and family members – and please come to the public hearing on September 7, 2010, in Greensboro , to voice your support of the 2012 date for all medical waste incinerators in NC to come into compliance with the new and more protective EPA air quality standards. 
  http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/documentary-36424-air-group.html
  Local documentary will raise air quality concern, group hopes
  August 26, 2010 5:08 PM

  Michael D. Abernethy / Times-News 

  Gearing up for a Sept. 7 public hearing on air quality standards, an environmental group will show a locally produced documentary about medical waste incineration practices at four locations next week.

  The documentary, “Burning Issues in Medical Waste Incineration,” focuses on possible impacts of Stericycle Inc.’s waste incinerator, located on the Graham-Haw River border. The documentary uses interviews with residents and scientists about the dangers of and alternatives to medical waste incineration.

  The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League hopes the documentary will spark questions and encourage people to attend a state hearing on medical waste incineration at UNC-Greensboro on Sept. 7, says Sue Dayton, the league’s N.C. Healthy Communities director. The state will hear comments on the implementation of new Environmental Protection Agency rules regarding air quality, which are anticipated to go into effect statewide in 2014. The new rules require stricter emissions standards for heavy metals and other potentially toxic substances.

  In response to the impending renewal of Stericycle Inc.’s state incineration permit, the league has lobbied local elected bodies to support and pass a resolution asking the state to implement the EPA rules in 2012. The city of Graham and the Alamance County Board of Commissioners declined to pass the resolution. The town of Haw River , the city of Mebane and the Orange County Board of Commissioners passed the resolution. The city of Burlington has yet to be presented with the resolution.

  The league and other concerned parties worry that medical waste incineration releases toxins into the air and water, affecting wildlife, food sources and public health. The group cites cancer statistics and warns of other health risks for developing fetuses, infants, children and the elderly. They want companies like Stericycle to use newer and cleaner practices for medical waste disposal, such as autoclaves.

  The short documentary was produced several years ago by Sanford Lewis, Massachusetts-based attorney for Health Care Without Harm — an international group of medical professionals, health care establishments and environmental and other groups.

  Dayton says the league will follow the film with a discussion of current emissions standards versus the updated emissions standards and how they would improve air quality in Alamance and surrounding counties.

  The film will be shown Monday at 7 p.m. at the Upper Chatham Lower Alamance Community Center (the old Cornucopia building), 3 miles south of Eli Whitney on N.C. 87 south.; Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Mebane Public Library, 101 S. First St., Mebane; Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the General Store Café, 39 West St., Pittsboro; and Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. at Graham Public Library, 211 South Main St., Graham.

  For more information contact Sue Dayton at 336-525-2003 or by e-mail at sdayton at swcp.com.

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