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It's troubling how many things are required to be recycled. If the items had value, then businesses would be paying consumers to take the recyclables off their hands. There's no reason to recycle paper products since it costs more (consumes more resources) to do so than to just grow more paper trees. Composting is pointless since things can either rot in a "compost" or they can rot in a "landfill".
In Salem, the trash is sent to an incinerator to be burned while producing electricity. This makes sense, considering decomposition is the process of oxidizing organic matter. Burning is the same process, but the energy can be harnessed to produce power, while the most harmful emissions can be sequestered.
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