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On first principles, there's no reason that the cost of transporting trash to the incinerator is any less carbon intensive than transporting trash to a landfill
by RC_ITR 3y ago
On first principles, there's no reason that the cost of transporting trash to the incinerator is any less carbon intensive than transporting trash to a landfill.
Maybe people prefer incinerators in their community over landfills in their community (unclear), but if that's the case, that's a policy decision and not one that seeks to minimize carbon emissions.
- bombcar 3y agoLots of recycling (has) been transported across the ocean to China. It's likely that landfill are the way to go in many cases, but people don't like them.