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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
There's a trash incinerator in Ohio that made the news not too long ago.
It makes about 1/10 the power of a typical coal fired power plant, is the biggest polluter in the state and is only able to run because it has been given a waver by the epa.
I guess they are trying to make coal look like the clean and sane option.
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Most us trash incinerators are very old and are not equipped with modern pollution controls as long as you leave out vinyl there is nothing coming out of a trash incinerator that doesn’t come out of a coal fired plant
There are very reasonable reasons to not allow much of anything in the landfill like having an area the size of Rhode Island in every state for junk then 50 years later plant houses on the mess.
Imagine if you will if it makes that kind of pollution being burnt what is it doing marginally sequestered for 50 years in the ground?