Displaying items by tag: hazardous waste

US: Keystone Cement has sought permissions to transport hazardous materials by rail to its Bath cement plant in Pennsylvania. The Express-Times newspaper has reported that the producer plans to build a six-tank farm and a railcar unloading facility at the plant, scheduled for commissioning in early 2026, to receive the materials. The Bath plant currently receives 10 – 15 tanker trucks of hazardous material daily.

Keystone Cement said "Transporting the hazardous wastes to site by the existing regional and local rail system would reduce the number of tanker trucks on the roads."

China: Jidong Cement Fengxiang plant in Tianjiazhuang district in Shaanxi is holding a public consultation before it disposes of 0.1Mt of hazardous waste. The cement company plans to process the waste in its 4500t/day kiln. It says that it can meet environmental regulations during the operation

China: China Resources Cement has completed a hazardous waste co-processing project in the Changjiang Li Autonomous County of Hainan. The unit started operation in early February 2018 and it has a processing capacity of 100t/day.