Title: Kenoshans Against Medical Waste Incineration (KAMWI) Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1988-1991

Creator:

• Kenoshans Against Medical Waste Incineration

Call Number: UWP Manuscript Collection 22

Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box)
Repository:

University of Wisconsin-Parkside Libraries, Archives Department

Archival Locations:

UW-Parkside Library / Parkside Area Research Ctr. (Map)

See the catalog entry for information about possible additional materials and access to the collection.

C19/B6

Abstract:

The Kenoshans Against Medical Waste Incineration (KAMWI) collection consists of materials related to the effort to prevent the Medigen company from erecting a medical waste incinerator in Kenosha. KAMWI's concern was for the future health of citizens exposed to the byproducts of incineration. This collection contains correspondence with local and state officials and notes by an unknown KAMWI member, plus news clippings, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports on toxins, studies, ordinances, and court cases.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-pks-uwpksmc022

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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.

This collection contains correspondence with local and state officials and notes by an unknown KAMWI member, plus news clippings, EPA reports on toxins, studies, ordinances and court cases.

Files were artificially separated by type and arranged alphabetically.

See the UWP Libraries' Archives Department Citation Guide for Primary Sources

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law.

Use Restrictions

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin Statutes 19.21-19.39).

Acquisition Information

Found in University Archives with no accession information.

Processing Information

Processed by Anna Stadick in 2010.

Box   1 Folder   1	Clippings, 1983-1990
Box   1 Folder   2	Correspondence, 1990
Box   1 Folder   3	Court proceedings, 1988-1989
Box   1 Folder   4	EPA studies on toxins, 1986-1988
Box   1 Folder   5	Kenosha Common Council agendas, 1990
Box   1 Folder   6	Notes, undated
Box   1 Folder   7	Studies, ordinances, 1989-1990