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Female Worker

XUYU, CHINA - MARCH 8, 2025 - A female worker controls a regenerative incinerator system at a production workshop of Jiangsu Yushi Film Technology Co., Ltd. in Xuyi, East China's Jiangsu province on March 8, 2025.

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Female Worker

XUYU, CHINA - MARCH 8, 2025 - A female worker controls a regenerative incinerator system at a production workshop of Jiangsu Yushi Film Technology Co., Ltd. in Xuyi, East China's Jiangsu province on March 8, 2025.

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Cambodia burns down multi-million USD worth of seized narcotics, precursor chemicals

STORY: Cambodia burns down multi-million USD worth of seized narcotics, precursor chemicals SHOOTING TIME: June 14, 2024 DATELINE: June 14, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:20 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of military police guards during drug-burning 2. various of illicit drug piles 3. various of officials burning drugs 4. various of drugs on fire STORYLINE: Cambodia on Friday destroyed multi-million U.S. dollars worth of narcotics and precursor chemicals seized from across the Southeast Asian country, officials said. Meas Vyrith, secretary-general of the National Authority for Combating Drugs, set fire to the illicit drugs and precursor chemicals at a ceremony held at an incinerator on the northern outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh. He said the drug destruction was made to celebrate the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which is observed annually on June 26. "A total of 4.1 tons of illicit drugs, with a trafficking market value of about 22.7 mill

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CAMBODIA-PHNOM PENH-ILLICIT DRUGS

(240614) -- PHNOM PENH, June 14, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Officials set fire to the illicit drugs at a ceremony held at an incinerator on the northern outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia on June 14, 2024. Cambodia on Friday destroyed multi-million U.S. dollars worth of narcotics and precursor chemicals seized from across the Southeast Asian country, officials said. (Photo by Ly Lay/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CAMBODIA-PHNOM PENH-ILLICIT DRUGS

(240614) -- PHNOM PENH, June 14, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Officials set fire to the illicit drugs at a ceremony held at an incinerator on the northern outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia on June 14, 2024. Cambodia on Friday destroyed multi-million U.S. dollars worth of narcotics and precursor chemicals seized from across the Southeast Asian country, officials said. (Photo by Ly Lay/Xinhua)

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Environmental Protection Project Construction in Zhangye

ZHANGYE, CHINA - APRIL 24, 2024 - Construction workers weld pipes for an incinerator at the incineration workshop of the Zhangye Hazardous Waste (Solid waste) disposal and Resource Utilization Center in Zhangye city, Gansu province, China, April 24, 2024.

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City in Shizuoka begins trial burning of debris from Iwate

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 16, 2012, shows a waste incinerator plant in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. The city began the same day trial incineration of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that it has accepted from a town in Iwate Prefecture to confirm the safety of the operation.

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Eishi Kubota receives Ph.D. in engineering at age 81

TOKYO, Japan - Eishi Kubota (photo) has been awarded a doctorate in engineering from Nagasaki University this year at age 81. Kubota, a former boiler designer with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., enrolled in the Open University of Japan at age 71 and went on to the Ph.D. program at Nagasaki University after he got a master's degree from the Open University. Kubota, whose Ph.D. dissertation focused on how to reduce dioxin at incinerators, says he decided to conduct research on dioxin as part of his post-retirement job as a consultant for incinerator manufacturers.

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Hirakata mayor arrested over suspected bid rigging

OSAKA, Japan - Hiroshi Nakatsuka, mayor of Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, heads to the Osaka District Prosecutors' Office in Osaka on July 31 for questioning. Nakatsuka, 51, was later arrested by the prosecutors for his role in the bid rigging case in 2005 for a garbage incinerator plant construction project.

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Police question Narita mayor on suspicion of bribery

NARITA, Japan - Osamu Kobayashi, the mayor of Narita, Chiba Prefecture, leaves his home on Dec. 2 for police questioning on suspicion he received 10 million yen in cash from a company commissioned to manage a municipal garbage incinerator in exchange for awarding it the management contract.

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9th cow in Japan with BSE heads for incinerator

TOKYO, Japan - Parts of a slaughtered 21-month-old bullock in Hiroshima Prefecture, which was confirmed as having bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) on Nov. 4, are carried away for incineration at a slaughterhouse in Fukuyama in the prefecture on Nov. 5. It was Japan's ninth case of mad cow disease.

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N-waste incinerator pipe ruptures, woman exposed to soot

OSAKA, Japan - An exhaust pipe attached to an incinerator for nuclear waste at Nihon Nohyaku Co.'s facility in Kawachinagano in Osaka Prefecture ruptured April 4. A female worker was exposed to a small amount of soot, police said.

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Greenpeace projects antidioxin messages on Tokyo waste plant

TOKYO, Japan - The environmentalist group Greenpeace Japan on May 22 uses a projector to display protest messages on the wall of a waste incinerator being used on a trial basis in a residential area in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. One of the messages read, ''No more new incinerator!''

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Incinerator pumps out dioxins 44 times over legal standard

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken June 30 shows an industrial-waste incinerator in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, whose dioxin emissions were found to exceed the legal standard by 44 times. The city has ordered the incinerator's operations to be suspended until its owner improves the facility's operations. City officials say the emissions have not caused any reported damage to people's health.

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4 Greenpeace members arrested for scaling Tokyo building

TOKYO, Japan - Four members of the environmentalist group Greenpeace drop a large banner proclaiming Tokyo the world's ''dioxin capital'' from this elevator tower near an incinerator plant in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on May 9, which they scaled to protest Japan's waste-incineration policies. The banner reads: ''Incineration First. Safety Second.'' After they descended, they were arrested on suspicion of trespassing.

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N-waste incinerator pipe ruptures, woman exposed to soot

OSAKA, Japan - An exhaust pipe attached to an incinerator for nuclear waste at Nihon Nohyaku Co.'s facility in Kawachinagano in Osaka Prefecture ruptured April 4. A female worker was exposed to a small amount of soot, police said.

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Cohen watches incinerator near Atsugi base

ATSUGI, Japan - U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen (2nd from L) watches an incinerator near the U.S. naval air station at Atsugi, southwest of Tokyo, on March 16. He said the incinerator releasing cancer-causing dioxin should be closed down if the problem can't be fixed.

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Hirakata mayor arrested over suspected bid rigging

OSAKA, Japan - Hiroshi Nakatsuka, mayor of Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, heads to the Osaka District Prosecutors' Office in Osaka on July 31 for questioning. Nakatsuka, 51, was later arrested by the prosecutors for his role in the bid rigging case in 2005 for a garbage incinerator plant construction project. (Kyodo)

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Eishi Kubota receives Ph.D. in engineering at age 81

TOKYO, Japan - Eishi Kubota (photo) has been awarded a doctorate in engineering from Nagasaki University this year at age 81. Kubota, a former boiler designer with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., enrolled in the Open University of Japan at age 71 and went on to the Ph.D. program at Nagasaki University after he got a master's degree from the Open University. Kubota, whose Ph.D. dissertation focused on how to reduce dioxin at incinerators, says he decided to conduct research on dioxin as part of his post-retirement job as a consultant for incinerator manufacturers. (Kyodo)

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Police question Narita mayor on suspicion of bribery

NARITA, Japan - Osamu Kobayashi, the mayor of Narita, Chiba Prefecture, leaves his home on Dec. 2 for police questioning on suspicion he received 10 million yen in cash from a company commissioned to manage a municipal garbage incinerator in exchange for awarding it the management contract. (Kyodo)

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City in Shizuoka begins trial burning of debris from Iwate

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 16, 2012, shows a waste incinerator plant in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. The city began the same day trial incineration of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that it has accepted from a town in Iwate Prefecture to confirm the safety of the operation. (Kyodo)

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Bird flu outbreak in Japan

Workers transport culled chickens from a poultry farm in the city of Sanuki, Kagawa Prefecture, in southwestern Japan, to an incinerator on Jan. 15, 2018, after the highly pathogenic H5 strain of avian influenza was detected. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bird flu outbreak in Japan

Workers transport culled chickens from a poultry farm in the city of Sanuki, Kagawa Prefecture, in western Japan, to an incinerator on Jan. 15, 2018, after the highly pathogenic H5 strain of avian influenza was detected. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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9th cow in Japan with BSE heads for incinerator

TOKYO, Japan - Parts of a slaughtered 21-month-old bullock in Hiroshima Prefecture, which was confirmed as having bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) on Nov. 4, are carried away for incineration at a slaughterhouse in Fukuyama in the prefecture on Nov. 5. It was Japan's ninth case of mad cow disease. (Kyodo)

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Greenpeace projects antidioxin messages on Tokyo waste plant

TOKYO, Japan - The environmentalist group Greenpeace Japan on May 22 uses a projector to display protest messages on the wall of a waste incinerator being used on a trial basis in a residential area in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. One of the messages read, ''No more new incinerator!''

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Incinerator pumps out dioxins 44 times over legal standard

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken June 30 shows an industrial-waste incinerator in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, whose dioxin emissions were found to exceed the legal standard by 44 times. The city has ordered the incinerator's operations to be suspended until its owner improves the facility's operations. City officials say the emissions have not caused any reported damage to people's health.

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4 Greenpeace members arrested for scaling Tokyo building

TOKYO, Japan - Four members of the environmentalist group Greenpeace drop a large banner proclaiming Tokyo the world's ''dioxin capital'' from this elevator tower near an incinerator plant in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on May 9, which they scaled to protest Japan's waste-incineration policies. The banner reads: ''Incineration First. Safety Second.'' After they descended, they were arrested on suspicion of trespassing.