industrial waste incinerator

Mrs. Kotani recalled that when she complained, officials "said they had to worry about the livelihood of the industrial waste incinerators."

Pulp and paper, metallurgical and chemical plants are principal sources of these pollutants, as well as industrial waste incinerators.

Eiko Kotani has long been annoyed about the 20 or so industrial waste incinerators that have sprung up over the last decade in the once pristine forest outside her front door.

A variety of tests determined that the waste material - compressed ash from an industrial waste incinerator - was contaminated with high levels of mercury as well as a possibly hazardous mixture of other metals.

Industrial waste incinerators of significant size have, in the past, been subject to control by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution, acting under air pollution control legislation, with plant being required to adopt the best practical means for dealing with the materials coming into the sites.