What safe destruction technologies are available?
Virtually everyone agrees that the only long-term solution to the PCB problem is to destroy the remaining volume of the chemical not yet dispersed in the environment. The best, most widely used and proven technology for destroying PCBs is high temperature incineration (greater than 1200 C for two seconds dwell time). Properly done, this has been shown to destroy PCBs at an efficiency of 99.9999 percent, leaving an inorganic ash. Smoke stack “scrubbers” are used to remove the hydrogen chloride gas and other compounds which can be formed as by-products of combustion.
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