Some ‘renewable’ #UK #incinerators are more polluting than coal stations

#climatechange

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/incinerators-more-polluting-than-coal-stations-greenwashing-uk-carbon-plastic-renewable/

There was an old Greenpeace leaflet on #Incinerators and #Dioxins. #Japan had eight times the number of incinerators as #Germany. A few searches didn't show me any new data..
> Japan has almost 2,000 #IncinerationPlants, compared with fewer than 100 in America. There are several reasons as to why Japan and #America have radically different waste disposal systems, primarily related to the geographic and cultural differences between the nations.
https://coordinates.ce.gatech.edu/japan-sustainable-development/rubbish-system-why-incineration-works-japan
#WasteIncineration #USA

> Incinerators are an unsustainable and obsolete method fordealing with waste. As global opposition to incineration continues to
grow, innovative philosophies and practices for sustainable
management of discards are being developed and adopted around
the world.
- https://www.no-burn.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Waste-Incineration-A-Dying-Technology.pdf

#Incinerators #焼却炉 #WasteDisposal #Dioxins #Pollution #ZeroWaste