Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke today ordered the $26 million medical waste incinerator in Hawkins Point to stop accepting out-of-state hospital waste immediately or shut down, a spokesman for the mayor said.
After meeting this morning with angry residents of southern city neighborhoods, Schmoke said the incinerator developed by Medical Waste Associates was violating a city zoning ordinance that bars it from accepting waste from outside the Baltimore area, reported Clinton Coleman, the mayor's press secretary.
