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The country now has more than 1,000 waste-incinerating power stations, representing more than half the world’s waste power capacity, according to the Global Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can be managed cleaner than landfill emitting methane into the air and other pollutants into soil and water systems

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can be

Unfortunately, this is not the same as "is being".

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you reckon China's management of landfill would be extremely competent and clean compared to their management of the incinerators

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you were to drop the "extremely" from the description, maybe but not necessarily. Let's see how the cancer statistics look for population centers downwind in a decade or so.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Expecting more or less than coal?

I don't know. Hard to make those predictions in the absence of good emissions data. I would expect cancer rates to be higher than in comparable areas that are not downwind of a trash burning facility though.