Legislation requiring Oregon’s only municipal waste incinerator to better analyze its air emissions is heading to the Senate floor for a vote — if the walkout ends before the session does in three ...

Reworld Marion, the municipal waste incinerator in Brooks, no longer releases mercury into the Willamette River, company officials have told the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, nine years ...

Marion County has signed a six-month contract extension with Reworld Marion, which operates the municipal waste incinerator in Brooks, nearly doubling the amount per ton the county pays the company to ...

A bill that would require Covanta Marion, the garbage burner in Brooks, to reduce emissions of certain air pollutants could get watered down. Senate Bill 488, sponsored by Sen. Deb Patterson, D-Salem, ...

Legacy of contamination could still live on in the soil of parks, playgrounds and other urban spaces built on former municipal incinerator sites DURHAM, N.C. – For much of the last century, many ...

Objectives—Increased concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in pooled blood samples from workers at municipal waste incinerators have ...

Four tons of HVAC filters from Air Filters Northwest in Portland. Eighty-five tons of toner waste from ECycle Solutions, an electronics recycler in Ontario, Canada. A hundred and fifty tons of oily ...

As a nation, Americans generate more waste than any other country in the world. Every year, the United States generates approximately 230 million tons of trash, which is about 4.6 pounds per person ...