Environmental Impacts Caused by Chemical Waste Incinerator

This article discusses the effects of chemical waste incineration on the environment and animal health, and suggests alternative methods for waste treatment. It highlights the pollutants emitted by incinerators and their impact on water resources, air quality, and animal health. The article also emphasizes the importance of using technologies that are economical and environment-friendly for waste treatment.

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Environmental impacts caused by chemical waste incinerator
Waste incinerators are actually the thermal treatment of the waste products coming out of the
industries and many commercial places. The waste can be a chemical waste or any kind of waste.
In waste incineration process the organic substance in the waste are combusted, and the waste is
concerted into ash, flue gases and heat. So, in this paper the effects of this waste treatment
method are discussed and the effects of the pollutants emitted by the incineration of chemical
waste product on animals and environment will be discussed. Also, what can be done
alternatively to neglect this effect of pollutants emitted during the treatment process will be
elaborated briefly.
There is a high percentage of waste which is generated by health care organizations and these
wastes are biomedical waste. Such wastes have to be treated before dumping it into the
environment because they can have bad effect on the natural bodies and the environment, and
also, these are 10%-25% of the total waste generated in a unite time and can have really a bad
impact on animal health and hence, are very important to be treated (Lelieveld et al., 2015). So,
for treating these biomedical wastes coming out of the health care organization is treated by
combusting the waste, which is called chemical waste incineration.
This treatment of chemical waste can also be dangerous to the environment. This is because
incinerator releases a lot of pollutants during its process and that can pollute the environment and
can be dangerous for animal health. Some of the harmful ingredients which are emitted of
incinerators are acid gasses, oxides of nitrogen, and oxides of Sulphur. These pollutants can
spread toxicity in the water resources which can results in spread of dangerous diseases caused
due to contaminated water. Not only in water, toxicity be spread in the air and the whole
environment as well, which can cause many dangerous diseases. Global warming, acidification,
photochemical ozone is some of the side effects of the pollutants emitted by the incinerators.
There are bad effects on the health of animals and can results in the dangerous diseases like
cancer, hormonal defects, increase in sex ratio and congenital abnormalities (Avino and Russo,
2018).
Following are the major impacts: Increasing noise pollution, Risk to health, affecting fauna and
flora, Global warming, Creation of, hazardous waste, Resources wastage.
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The existence of waste impacts the animals and it is necessary to focus on maintaining the
health. It produces gases which can affect the populations. There was an increased awareness
that certain hospital wastes can negatively impact the health of animals. The constant increased
waste of hospital has dangerous gases like nitrogen and nitrous oxide which can be harmful to
the environment. The incineration is a new activity in the company. It is the process which
manages the hazardous gases produced by waste. It is important that the evolution of its aspect
and environmental impacts be structured judiciously. It should be controlled for the sake of
environment. The obtained data in each of the environmental descriptors subject to
environmental impact by this plant were analyzed (Lake et al., 2015).
The methodology is implemented to support the consistent determination of significant
environmental aspects, mainly those aspects that have a major impact on the environment which
should as a critical and aspects of these activities are: Using raw material and naturally produced
resources, Discharging the waste into water bodies, managing waste, Issues related to
transportation, Environmental risks (Cui et al., 2017).
Treatment of the chemical waste coming out of the industries and the health care organizations
are important to be treated and it is also important to reduce the pollutants coming out of these
incinerators so that they do not pollute the environment and don’t causes bad effect on
environment and on animals health. So, for doing this and coming up with these results, it is
important to adapt new technologies which are widely accepted, economical and environment
friendly (Martín et al., 2015).
One of the methods that can be used in reducing the effect of pollutants coming out of
incineration process is by the use of hydroclaves and plasma pyrolysis during the treatment of
biomedical wastes in incinerators can results into much lesser environmental degradation,
negligible effect on the health of animals, helps in handling the waste products in a much safer
way, reduces the bad effects on microorganisms, helps in reducing the cost of running the plant
and also the cost of maintenance, and provide the ways of disposing the waste in a safer way
(Horton et al., 2017).
Any technologies can be used in order to treat the chemical wastes coming out the industries and
animal health care, but it is important to keep in mind that these processes should not have bad
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effects or should not be hazardous to the environment and the health of animals. All the aspects
of the processes which includes collecting, transporting, treating and finally disposing the
outcomes of the treatment has to kept in mind before and while planning, designing and
implementing the use of waste treatment methods or while constructing the incinerators (Koren
and Bisesi, 2016).
Another important thing to keep in mind is that one should have a prior knowledge about the
properties of the resultant products which will be created during the waste treatment processes.
This can help in a way that if one has the prior knowledge about how the outcome product will
be affecting the environment and the health of animals, then it can be monitored easily that what
technology should be used in order to minimize these effects.
So, it can be concluded that designing a waste treatment or it can be said that incinerator is a
matter of high concern and should be done with full care. Different models with different
technologies and capabilities has to be tested before implementing the waste treatment process so
that the needed variation can be done at the time construction only and the best outcome can be
selected.
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