Birmingham Council Backs New Medical Waste Facility

0:00It's April 8th. You're listening to Birmingham News today, AI-powered local news. I'm Corey with the story. Birmingham City Council just held a public hearing on a new non-hazardous medical waste facility in the Kingston neighborhood, and it got unanimous. Support from everyone who spoke. Harvest solutions wants to process waste from local hospitals right here in the city, instead of trucking it out to places like Gadsden, Huntsville. And Dothan, Louisiana, and Florida, keeping tax dollars and jobs close to home. Right now, a dozen or so Birmingham hospitals ship their non-hazardous medical waste out of town every day, missing out on revenue that could boost. The local economy, folks from the Kingston Neighborhood Association are all in, excited about promises like a new community center, fresh jobs, and turning an old. Blighted industrial site full of trash into a clean, landscape spot. The tech uses ozone gas from oxygen to treat the waste quietly and cleanly, breaking it down safely without incinerators, and developers expect a Council vote next week to push this

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