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Described by some as being a new type of NIMBY protest, [2] the roots of the anti-incinerator movement can be traced back to the early 1990s, following the introduction of China's first generation of incinerator plants. [3] The movement, however, began in earnest with the benchmark 2006 Liulitun protest taking place in Beijing.
Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials. [1] Industrial plants for waste incineration are commonly referred to as waste-to-energy facilities. Incineration and other high-temperature waste treatment systems are described as "thermal treatment".
The Macau Refuse Incineration Plant (MRIP; traditional Chinese: 澳門垃圾焚化中心; simplified Chinese: 澳门垃圾焚化中心; pinyin: Àomén Lèsè Fénhuà Zhōngxīn; Portuguese: Incineração de Resíduos Sólidos de Macau) is an incinerator in Taipa, Macau, China.
The protests that began on June 28, 2019 [126] in Wuhan against a proposed incinerator [127] typify the anti-incinerator movement in China. People took to the streets to force the local government to move the location of the proposed incinerator. [128] The protests were met with violence from the police. [129]
Plasma gasification is in commercial use as a waste-to-energy system that converts municipal solid waste, tires, hazardous waste, and sewage sludge into synthesis gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide that can be used to generate power. Municipal-scale waste disposal plasma arc facilities have been in operation in Japan and China since 2002.
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Flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) is a set of technologies used to remove sulfur dioxide (SO 2) from exhaust flue gases of fossil-fuel power plants, and from the emissions of other sulfur oxide emitting processes such as waste incineration, petroleum refineries, cement and lime kilns.
Kirk C. Allison, associate director of the Program in Human Rights and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, wrote that the "short time frame of an on-demand system [as in China] requires a large pool of donors pre-typed for blood group and HLA matching," which is consistent with reports of Falun Gong prisoners having blood and tissue tested ...