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Customers say medical waste company adds excessive fees.  

Some of its customers say medical waste is not the only thing Stericycle Inc. is burning these days.

The Illinois-based waste handler, which operates a controversial incinerator in North Salt Lake, is charging excessive fees without the customers’ consent or even knowledge, according to proposed class-action lawsuits filed in Utah and four other states.

Mindy Grover, her first-grade daughter and dozens of other parents and children were running in Foxboro Elementary's 5K race last Friday evening in North Salt Lake, Utah, when thick plumes of black smoke clouded the course.

State regulators already have cited Stericycle’s medical waste incinerator in North Salt Lake for violating pollution and record-keeping standards, and soon their attention will turn to fines. View full article

The Wainwright Regional Waste to Energy Authority holds an Approval for the 
purposes of owning and operating an incinerator for the disposal of solid 
municipal, industrial and biomedical wastes. The incinerator is operated by G-M 
Pearson Environmental Management Ltd. The Parties contravened the 
Approval with late submission of the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Annual Air 
Emissions Reports; failing to continuously monitor carbon monoxide at the 
incinerator baghouse stack; and the release of substances, to wit mercury, 
dioxins, and furans, into the environment above the approved limit. Paid 28 
December 2012. See ENFORCEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
AND ENHANCEMENT ACT And WATER ACT Compliance Assurance, Operations Division - Alberta Government

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Physician employers are legally responsible for the general protection of workers (Regulation, s. 13) when assessing and controlling workplace hazards such as harmful substances. Are you an employer? Alberta legislation defines an employer as anyone who is self-employed or who employs one or more workers.

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