Maintenance

　Operators are required to keep a maintenance log recording type and amount of refuse burned. Upon inspection by citizen groups, not one of the logbooks showed complete or accurate records. Gaps in records are an infringement of regulations, yet the authorities have not even offered ﾒguidanceﾓ on this issue. The authorities have asked the operators to remove plastics from the refuse to be incinerated. But the disorderly heaps of refuse piled around the incinerators are infested with plastic scrap. Obviously the operators are burning materials not listed on their permits, and they are also under suspicion of burning amounts exceeding the limits registered on their permits. The official permit of one such facility states: "Authorized to burn 8 tons per day (twenty-five 4-ton truckloads)." Yet according to the logbook, the facility incinerates three times that amount per day. Another facilityﾕs operator has admitted to regularly burning ﾒaround twice the authorized amountﾓ. If this is common practice....