The Engineering of Landfills

Re:The Engineering of Landfills by throwaway2037 on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @07:23AM (#41444345)

First, I agree about methane source is organic matter, not plastics. I think OP would agree.

    > it seems like landfills are far-and-away the best way to go until we are able to grapple with climate change.

If this is true, why do so many different, highly developed nations use garbage incineration for large parts of their waste?

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Re:The Engineering of Landfills by Retric on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @10:32AM (#41446289)

Money. Landfills aren’t cheap to operate and burning also reduces transportation costs.

Incineration ends up being quite profitable in isolation. Take stuff worth negative X$ per ton and turn it into a smaller pile of stuff still worth negative X$ per ton. Generating power is a useful side effect, but not the main reason.

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