Incinerator
This isolated incinerator, visible from the rest area on the eastbound side of the Interstate, burns around 50,000 tons of solvents, paints, old chemicals, contaminated soils, and PCBs every year, which come by truck and rail to the facility from all over the nation. The incinerator, known as the...
This hazardous waste management site is among the largest and most notorious in the nation. The hazardous chemical incinerator on site burned the contaminated soil from Times Beach, Missouri, as well as PCBs and other chemicals from all over the nation. The Safety-Kleen company, the nations largest...
One of the largest "waste-to-energy" plants in the country, this one handles 3,300 tons per day. Operated by Covanta Energy, which owns the most waste-to-energy plants in the United States (around 25 plants).
Around 60,000 tons of hazardous material, containing contaminants such as lead, mercury and arsenic, are burned in this incinerator on the Ohio River every year, making it one of the largest of its type in the world. It is operated by VonRoll America Incorporated's Waste Technology Industries, and...
As much as 1,600 tons per day of trash is converted into energy here at this plant, finished in 1994. Billed as the "world's most technologically advanced trash-to-energy plant" by its parent company WMX Technologies, the large waste-handling company. The stack is 386 feet tall.
One of the larger "waste-to-energy" plants in the country, this one handles 1,650 tons per day. Operated by the Covanta Corporation, which operates over 25 waste-to-energy plants, more than any other company.
One of the larger "waste-to-energy" plants in the country, this one handles over 2,000 tons per day at a 23.5 acre site. Operated by the Covanta Corporation.
A hazardous waste incinerator, located on the grounds of a former chemical plant. One of less than 30 commercial hazardous waste incinerators permitted to dispose of PCBs. LWD is an independent waste company that operates this incinerator and a disposal site in Calvert City, an intensely...
Florida is flat and swampy, and waste disposal is more problematic than in some other regions. The tide has turned against filling Florida's swamps with "landfill" such as household waste, as these practices harm the environment, and in this flat landscape it is hard to hide concentrated landfill...