US EPA

8093694 

Journal Article 

SMOLDERING QUESTION OF HOSPITAL WASTES 

Doyle, BW; Drum, DA; Lauber, JD 

1985 

0 

Pollution Engineering
ISSN: 0032-3640
EISSN: 1937-4437 

17 

7 

35-39 

English 

There is increasing concern today about the proper disposal of hospital wastes, which can contain many very hazardous and infectious materials. Landfilling these types of wastes is no longer considered environmentally acceptable; high temperature waste incineration is the preferred hospital waste disposal method. Modern controlled air incinerators, which only about 15 percent of American hospitals now utilize, can effectively dispose of many types of complex wastes; with high combustion efficiencies assuring complete destruction of hazardous compounds and minimal trace emissions of toxic air contaminants. The use of efficient control technology such as alkaline scrubbing systems can effectively neutralize and remove acid gas and most toxic air contaminants.