What is Incineration?
Douglassville Disposal is one of many Superfund sites where EPA is using incineration. An incinerator burns hazardous wastes in a controlled, enclosed chamber. It destroys organic compounds and reduces the volume of waste. The process is very effective and is odorless and smokeless. Incineration consists of four basic steps: • Feed wastes into the incinerator. • Burns wastes at a high temperature. This destroys organic compounds and breaks them down into products such as ash, carbon dioxide, and water vapor. • Collect, cool, and remove the ashes from the incinerator. • Cool and clean the remaining gasses. Release the cleaned air.
An incinerator is a component and tool of the waste-to-energy industry. The primary objectives of an incineration plant are: • To combust organic waste in order to combat the growing presence of human created waste. • To divert and thus destroy the growing amount of garbage incoming into landfills worldwide. • Whereby this diverstion will help keep existing landfills open longer, and thus postone the creation of new landfills. • To provide electricity via the combustion of organic solids into energy for the local population • And lastly, to combust and thus destroy medical waste and items that are thereby composed of organic toxins in order to safeguard humans from contamination, infection and possible death.
