Thursday, September 23, 2010

Metro garbage incinerator gets scrubber upgrade

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Metro Vancouver will upgrade the emission scrubbers at its Burnaby garbage incinerator in anticipation of tighter provincial pollution regulations, but the new system won't be as clean as originally envisioned.

The $7-million project aims to slash levels of nitrogen oxides released from the stack of the waste-to-energy plant, which burns 276,000 tonnes of local garbage annually.

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