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Landfill is better then incinerating. Burning it releases toxic chemicals and is effectively dumping it in the air (vs dumping it in the ocean). Landfill (dumpi
by dalore 7y ago
Landfill is better then incinerating. Burning it releases toxic chemicals and is effectively dumping it in the air (vs dumping it in the ocean). Landfill (dumping in the ground) is the least worst of all the options. From what you may believe there is plenty of land available.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoIncineration works well when modern technology is brought to bear. It also doesn't create later water/land pollution problems. In any cases, one solution might work better than the other depending on the context.
- joe_the_user 7y agoBurning, recycling or burial all could be OK if they were done right. But doing them right involves more costs than doing them wrong. The US and other countries hire companies and pay them to do the disposal. Sure, the companies get paid for the estimated cost of doing the disposal right but companies make all their extra profit from doing the disposal wrong. The entire approach of subcontracting is misguided but given vast vested interests behind the subcontracting approach, given you know this stuff is going to be done wrong, which wrong to do you do want? Pollution of the air, the earth or the water?