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If your lab or campus has a clinical waste incinerator, although this is becoming more and more unlikely, then there are number of pieces of Legislation to be aware of including:

  • Waste Incinerator Directives- 2000/76/EC
  • Clean Air Act
  • Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) and Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC)

The requirements include emission limits for specific air pollutants such as particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, lead, cadmium, mercury, dioxins and dibenzofurans, and fugitive ash dust.

In addition the standards set out requirements for operator qualifications and training, monitoring and testing procedures, operational parameters, and inspections.

Continue on through this EVC section to learn more about air pollution control requirements associated with air emissions monitoring potentially applicable to clinical waste incinerators.

 

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