KAMWI was a Kenosha-based group of several hundred persons opposed to the
construction of a medical waste incinerator in Kenosha. Their strategies included
education, letter-writing, political involvement, and picketing. Medigen Medical
Wastes Services is a national company that came to public notice in the late 1980s
in many states due to the same fear of plastic incineration byproduct pollution that
motivated KAMWI. Medigen, claiming harmlessness backed up by Department of Natural Resources reports, was
allowed to build the incinerator, though several years later it went out of business
and another incinerator replaced it.
