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Incredibly expensive, solvent heavy and wouldn’t actually work either. You’d be better off burning the lot to produce electricity which is what increasingly hap
by iNerdier 7y ago
Incredibly expensive, solvent heavy and wouldn’t actually work either. You’d be better off burning the lot to produce electricity which is what increasingly happens.
- ecnahc515 7y agoI'd assume/hope they're capturing the gases from the burning, but do you know if that produces anything usable or something we also need to then figure out what to do with?
- mojomark 7y agoYou're assumption, unfortunately, is incorrect.[1][2] 1.) Ocean City, MD opts to burn recyclables in Covanta Incinerators (selfish, awesome): https://www.oceancity.com/ocean-city-has-no-plans-to-return-recycling/ https://www.oceancity.com/ocean-city-has-no-plans-to-return-... 2.) Covanta Incinerators are bad despite what the company claims (selfish, shocking): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/too-much-pollution/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/too-much-pollution/
- ecnahc515 7y agoI tend to be a pessimist so I was trying to be a bit more optimistic, but I guess that was a bit misguided.