Yeah modern incineration is a totally different beast with flue gas cleaning systems [1]. Before wet scrubbers [2] and some other clean air technology reached

Yeah modern incineration is a totally different beast with flue gas cleaning systems [1]. Before wet scrubbers [2] and some other clean air technology reached mass production - largely in the 70s iirc, because of EPA & California Air Resources Board pressure on coal power plants - incineration was a much dirtier way of disposing of trash. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration#Flue-gas_cleaning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration#Flue-gas_cleaning [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_scrubber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_scrubber