Dive summary:
- A non-hazardous medical waste incinerator in North Salt Lake City, owned by Stericycle, has been caught falsifying records regarding emissions.
- State regulators say they had been skeptic for the past year and were finally able to prove that Stericycle was falsifying records to conceal how many pollutants they were actually putting in the air.
- Bryce Bird, director of the Utah Division of Air Quality, said, "We received evidence that the loading of material into the incinerator during the tests was not representative of normal operating conditions."
From the article:
According to the notice of violation, Stericycle at first attempted to blame tests that were in violation of its emission limits on a flawed laboratory analysis. After the division obtained additional information, it found that a Dec. 27-28, 2011, test exceeded levels for hazardous pollutants, as well as nitrogen oxides, or highly reactive gasses.
Bird said there were repeated problems with other tests and discrepancies that popped up in the company's logs that misled regulators. ...
