CHICAGO (AP) -- Four Illinois hospitals are resisting demands by Gov. Rod Blagojevich to shut down their medical waste incinerators, indicating they should be paid to do so in order to recoup the cost ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has received negative declarations from Louisiana, certifying that there are no existing Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste ...

The Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, (FETHI), Ekiti State, has installed a 3500kg capacity incinerator capable of combusting both medical and household wastes. The incinerators will henceforth ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A handful of Illinois hospitals are pumping dangerous substances into the air by burning medical waste and should abandon the practice, Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Monday, and ...

The Liaquat University Hospital (LUH) has made its incinerator functional around 5 years after it was installed in compliance with a court’s order. The LUH’s spokesman informed on Saturday that the ...

Jim Ferguson, senior vice president of engineering with Stericycle of Bannockburn, Ill., said the company’s new hospital, medical and infectious waste incineration facility at Tahoe Reno Industrial ...