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BMWNC medical waste incinerator
Campaign Victory Declared by Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and
our chapter Citizens for a Healthy Environment.
BMWNC is closed! A May 11, 2011 letter to Mecklenburg County’s air permit chief from incinerator
manager Lewis Renfro states the company has “ceased operations at the incineration facility in
Matthews, NC and has begun the process of decommissioning the site.”
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Medical Waste Incinerator Closed Down!
Campaign Victory Declared by Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and our chapter Citizens for a Healthy Environment
May 2011: Public education, community determination and direct action defeat bureaucratic inertia, financial influence and political pressure. BMWNC is closed! A May 11, 2011 letter to Mecklenburg County's air permit chief from incinerator manager Lewis Renfro states the company has “ceased operations at the incineration facility in Matthews, NC and has begun the process of decommissioning the site.”
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Groups Call for BMWNC Shut-down
New Pollution Study Identifies Harm
Nov. 9, 2010: Today at a press conference in Matthews,
the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and Citizens for a
Healthy Environment released an air pollution study which
concludes that the BMWNC medical waste incinerator is too
dangerous to operate. The groups called for a shut-down of the
incinerator.
BREDL Press Release |
BMWNC Air Modeling
Report
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Mecklenburg County passes
resolutions to request
early implementation of new EPA rules by
Oct. 6, 2012
April 22, 2010: The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners
have given county residents a fitting Earth Day gift. In an
effort to help protect Matthews-area residents from exposure to
toxic air emissions from the BMWNC medical waste incinerator,
located on the border of Matthews and Stallings, commissioners
unanimously approved two resolutions at their April 20 meeting,
requesting early implementation of the new 2014 EPA guidelines on
medical waste incinerator Title V permits in Mecklenburg County.
The county wants to shave two years off the four years allowed
under the new EPA rules for medical waste incinerators to come
into compliance with the new rules.
Read Citizens for a Healthy
Environment Press Release
View Mecklenburg County Resolution
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BMWNC medical waste incinerator is
operating on expired permit
League calls on MCAQ to re-issue permit under new, more
protective EPA rules
April 6, 2010: The Blue Ridge
Environmental Defense League has confirmed that the BMWNC medical
waste in incinerator in Matthews, NC, has been operating without
a valid permit since March of 2009. The information was submitted
to the Mecklenburg County Air Quality in comments concerning the
incinerator’s application for a permit renewal. By law, a
medical waste incinerator cannot operate without a valid Title V
air quality permit, and an application for renewal must be
submitted to the governing agency nine months prior to the
expiration date. Read BREDL Press Release
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April 1, 2010: BREDL Comments and Recommendations to Mecklenburg County Department Air Quality concerning renewal of BMWNC Title V Permit renewal for the BMWNC medical waste incinerator, located in Matthews, NC.
Matthews’ residents
at risk for exposure to high levels of toxic air pollutants
Residents will speak at press conference prior to public hearing
about impacts from incinerator
A press conference will take place on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 at 5:30
p.m. before a public hearing that has been scheduled for 6:30
p.m. the same evening concerning the Title V permit renewal for
the BMWNC medical waste incinerator, located in Matthews, NC.
Both the press conference and hearing will take place at the
Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), Levine Campus, 2800
Campus Ridge Rd., in the Auditorium, Rm. 2120. BREDL Press Advisory
BREDL will hold community informational meeting on BMWNC medical waste incinerator
The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL) will hold a community informational meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 8, 2010, at the Matthews Public Library located at 230 Matthews Station St. in Matthews, NC.
Read Press Advisory
 Dec. 7, 2004:
A new report released today by the Blue Ridge
Environmental Defense League (BREDL) documents
the health risks to people living near waste
incinerators in North Carolina. Citing as
examples two medical waste incinerators,
Stericycle in Haw River and BMWNC in Matthews,
and the municipal solid waste incinerator WASTEC
in New Hanover County, BREDL urged North
Carolinians to learn about PVC, the "Poison
Plastic", and take action to phase out its
use. Read BREDL
Press Release
BREDL joins Center for Health,
Environment & Justice (CHEJ) in national
release of PVC Report - PVC, Bad News Comes
in Threes: The Poison Plastic, Health Hazards
& The Looming Waste Crisis. This national
report will be released on Tuesday, December 7,
2004. It provides a comprehensive summary of the
hazards of PVC, with new information on the
looming PVC waste crisis. News Releases and
events in 19 States. For information on the
national release contact CHEJ at: 703-237-2249,
Cell Phone 703-627-9483.
Oct. 11, 2000 - Citizens
breathe easy with closure of medical waste
incinerator
Oct. 10, 2000 - Citing numerous problems,
Mecklenburg Co. Dept. of Environmental Protection
shuts down the BMWNC Inc. medical waste
incinerator in Matthews, NC.
 Picture
of BMWNC medical waste incinerator in
Matthews, NC.
full view
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June 9, 2000 - Prisoners
Of Our Homes (POOH) holds a press briefing in
Charlotte, NC. POOH called for the shut
down of the BMWNC medical waste
incinerator. Photos from press
briefing.
BREDL
requests public comment
extension for BMWNC air monitoring plan in the
Matthews, NC community
BREDL & POOH list concerns with Air Monitoring Plan for BMWNC
December 21, 1998
air test
results conducted at
the BMWNC incinerator in Mecklenburg County, NC
Accidental Incineration of a Nuclear Powered Cardiac Pacemaker
at BMWNC
1997 Report of
medical waste processed by BMWNC, inc.
Report released
by the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
(BREDL), and Prisoners Of Our Homes (POOH) shows
mercury in tuna threatens developing babies and
young children. Citizens ask North Carolina
hospitals to reduce threat by eliminating mercury
from health care.
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