• Womble@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Waste burning at least seems to make sense, if its not burnt its only going to go into landfill and emit methane.

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      1 month ago

      Except, the plant is sized to burn around 8x the amount of household waste produced in the city and regionally, there already are enough waste-burning plants for the current amount of household waste, making this a bet on a foreseeable race to the bottom.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      That’s actually fine if the landfill has methane extraction systems. The methane can be used to generate electricity