A depository for waste articles includes a chamber for storing waste articles and a control unit for determining a characteristic of a waste article presented to the depository for storage in the chamber.

A waste incinerator is provided which can completely prevent environmental pollution by dioxins. Exhaust gas from an incinerator is guided into a glass melting furnace by a duct, and blown into molten glass through a bubbling pipe to decompose dioxins in the exhaust gas. High-temperature gas produced in the glass melting furnace is supplied into the incinerator by a pipe so as to burn wastes without using auxiliary fuel. Further, exhaust gas is pressurized by pressure pumps in a pipe branching f...

A waste container includes a pliable plastic bag, and a rectangular sheet of stiff sheet material rolled and retained in the form of a cylinder open at its opposite ends and receiving the bag within it. The cylinder formed by the sheet encloses the bag, exposes the bottom of the bag enabling it to serve as the bottom of the waste container, and terminates short of the open top of the bag permitting a portion thereof to be turned out towards the bottom of the bag and to be draped over the corresp...

An enclosed, suspended receptacle having an opening in its upper portion for receiving waste with a hinged door in the lower portion of the front of the receptacle and a bottom on the receptacle that is hinged adjacent the rear of the receptacle, the bottom and door having a linkage connecting them so as to move the bottom downwardly relative to the receptacle as the door pivots outwardly away from the receptacle to form a waste exit in the receptacle.

A reusable waste receptacle includes: an outer container having foldable sidewalls and a bottom V-shaped in cross section; and, in inner array of disposable bags in vertically disposed relation, the innermost bag resting against the rear wall of the container, the outermost bag covering the remaining bags, and when in use being supported by the V-shaped bottom of the outer container. An interlockable lid holds the container in compact closed position. When opened, however, the container snaps op...

A waste container has top opening closed by a lid member. A pair of arms is pivotally mounted on opposed ends of the container. The lid member is pivoted relative to its rear edge to the upper ends of the arms. The arms are of a length and so mounted to the container ends that the lid can be moved between a closed position and an open position with the front edge of the lid sliding along the upper edges of the container ends. A pair of springs connected between each arm and the container assists...

This invention relates to a waste container to be held in the hand for the collection of liquid waste, primarily stomach contents thrown up at attacks of vomiting. With a view to providing a waste container in which it is possible to catch large quantities of vomit or waste, which is readily handled without spillage of the contents, and which after deposition on a support prevents all by itself the contents and the smell from escaping, the waste container (1) comprises an annular handle (2) on w...

Landfill sites or other refuse deposits are temporarily covered by sheet material between successive filling or dumping operations. The sheet material may be left in place and more refuse deposited on top, or removed and re-used. The material is preferably woven, biodegradable and permeable, such as hessian. A number of sheets of the material may be placed together side-by-side and joined together such as by stitching, stapling or staking.

A method for encapsulating and immobilizing waste for disposal. Waste, preferably, biologically, chemically and radioactively hazardous, and especially electronic wastes, such as circuit boards, are placed in a crucible and heated by microwaves to a temperature in the range of approximately 300.degree. C. to 800.degree. C. to incinerate organic materials, then heated further to a temperature in the range of approximately 1100.degree. C. to 1400.degree. C. at which temperature glass formers prese...

A waste bag made from a sheet of plastics laminate comprising a layer of generally fluid-proof plastics material and a layer of liquid-absorbent plastics material. The liquid-absorbent material is on the inside of the bag, and the laminate is turned back on itself along at least one seam of the bag. Regions of the generally fluid-proof plastics material that are in contact with one another along that seam are sealed together ultrasonically.