American Ecology subsidiary offers new hazardous waste treatment technology at Nevada site

American Ecology Corporation today announced commercial availability of thermal desorption services at subsidiary US Ecology, Inc.'s Beatty, NV, hazardous and PCB waste treatment and disposal facility.

"Thermal desorption technology offers a cost-effective, environmentally superior alternative to incineration of wastes containing pesticides and other organic chemical compounds," Zaki Naser, executive vice president and operations manager for American Ecology, stated. "This system, known as Low Temperature Thermal Desorption, provides the best demonstrated available technology for treating organic constituents to meet federal Land Disposal Restriction requirements."

The specific technology selected by US Ecology has successfully passed muster at Superfund clean-up sites managed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and was subjected to rigorous testing at the Beatty site before beginning commercial operations.

"The addition of thermal desorption technology to Beatty's hazardous and PCB waste treatment and disposal operation offers customers a suite of environmentally protective services not found at any other facility in the western United States," Naser concluded.

American Ecology Corporation, headquartered in Boise, ID, through its subsidiaries, provides a variety of radioactive, PCB, hazardous and non-hazardous waste services to commercial and government customers throughout the United States, such as nuclear power plants, medical and academic institutions, petro-chemical facilities, and manufacturing plants.

Source: American Ecology Corporation
Edited by Kate Goff
Editor, Solid Waste Online