05-07-2015, 02:23 PM
billb wrote:
[quote=Fritz]
what a bunch of tree huggers
Not really.
The incinerators generate tons and tons of toxic ash that get buried in landfills potentially compromising ground water for an eternity of monitoring for future generations.
Burning garbage spews sulfur and nitrogen oxides into the air at a rate between that of natural gas generators and coal burning generators.
You might not want to open the book on how much global warming carbon they belch.
The ash is buried in impervious clay lined sites. Same for landfills. This has been true for many decades.
Scrubbers on the incinerators take care of the sulfur and NOx compounds. Not much progress on the CO2, though.