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Yes but can't you have a closed system that compacts the exhaust into solid matter?
by tomc1985 7y ago
Yes but can't you have a closed system that compacts the exhaust into solid matter?
- Scoundreller 7y agoFor some things (like SO2), yes. But not easy for CO2.
- xyzzyz 7y agoYeah, it's much easier and cheaper to have someone else emit all of it (and most likely more than we would have) on your behalf on the other side of the world. Locally it wouldn't fly, because people don't like the idea of just burning it and releasing all of the pollutants, but if you ship it in the container that would otherwise go empty anyway, and then they do it for you, it's okay.
- Scoundreller 7y agoI’m assuming that developing country industry are buying the plastics waste for re-processing, not direct burning. It’s re-processed there because it’s economically viable to do the sorting/cleaning that wouldn’t be with higher wages. I don’t believe there’s wide-scale shipping of straight garbage trans-continentally, that’s cheaper to process locally/regionally.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoIt's hard to convince the upscale NIMBY crowd that the .00-whatever parts per billion of nasty stuff that get past the filter system of a modern incinerator plant isn't gonna give everyone cancer and make the frogs bi-curious. Then you have to figure out what to do with the waste and you'll face the same problem.
- tomc1985 7y agoIf its a closed system there are no emitters. Just solid waste, to be trucked off to a landfill or something