Ash Shipment Rejected by Panama as Hazard
Panamanian officials refused Friday to accept 250,000 tons of ash from two Philadelphia trash incinerators, citing a possible health hazard.
Jorge Illueca, executive secretary of Panama’s Commission on the Environment, said officials were concerned about possible toxic contamination from the ash, which Philadelphia officials had said was to be used in a road-building project in Panama.
Philadelphia and its private contractor, Bulkhandling Inc., had planned to send the first shipment of 27,000 tons of ash from the city’s two residential trash incinerators to Panama next Friday.
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