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We need to stop trying to recycle things, and start burning them for energy. It's simply better for the environment. It suffers from not "looking" green, whic
by ars 5y ago
We need to stop trying to recycle things, and start burning them for energy.
It's simply better for the environment.
It suffers from not "looking" green, which matters far more to people than actually being green.
- Claire42 5y agoI would be interested if you have a source for that.
- papito 5y agoPlasma, bitches!
- OldTimeCoffee 5y agoIt's not really better for the environment because you have all the byproducts of the combustion, some of which can be pretty toxic themselves.
- pomian 5y agoUnless you sustain 1850°C
- OldTimeCoffee 5y agoSure, good luck with the vessel at that temp
- ars 5y agoCeramics can handle it easily.
- athenot 5y agoThis is referred to as Waste Valorization[1] and is common in Europe with high temperature incinerators. [1] There are other forms of valorization other than heat generation; but this one is the easiest to implement at scale.
- occz 5y agoDepends on the material, really. Switch to multi-stream recycling and reclaim the material as well as possible on a per-stream basis - that's what happens in Sweden, afaik.
- lrem 5y agoI was shocked when I learned about all the things you can't recycle in Switzerland. But it seems that, indeed, burning is the better choice. And it works well in practice.