The work, proposed by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and completed by Health Protection Scotland, was requested to help Scotland's environment watchdog improve the regulation of thermal treatment of waste facilities. The report looks at a range of previous studies on the health ...

Over the past few years, waste management has risen in importance for healthcare organisations across the UK Revised legislation, compliance with governance requirements, cost pressures, sustainability, limited resources and many other factors have contributed to the increased requirement to manage ...

After reviewing the latest literature the Agency’s general position remains unchanged: “Modern, well managed incinerators make only a small contribution to local concentrations of air pollutants. It is possible that such small additions could have an impact on health but such effects, if they ...