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Anyone have good insight into the US and why we do not have more incinerators like Japan? I realize you need to scrub the smoke stacks and I believe the push I
by infecto 3y ago
Anyone have good insight into the US and why we do not have more incinerators like Japan? I realize you need to scrub the smoke stacks and I believe the push I Japan now is to capture the co2 is it or something like that? But why no real effort to do something similar in America? Recycled plastic is a joke. Seems that it would potentially be better to burn it than bury it?
- hannob 3y agoWhether countries use mostly landfills or incinerators depends pretty much on one variable: Population density. The US has plenty of space for landfills. Japan has very little space. But ultimately, landfills and incinerators are both bad solutions. CO2 capturing for incinerators would be somewhat sensible, but there is currently no plant doing that. There were plans for one in Oslo, but that just got put on hold due to increasing costs.