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China is running out of garbage. Now they want to burn their neighbors'. (kdwalmsley.substack.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago* (4 children)

From my understanding it can be done relatively cleanly with filtration, and its much better for the environment than letting it sit on a landfill generating methane

(Not an expert, so I might be incorrect)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah, we all know Communist Chinese Government is great at supervision and transparency of their quality control. CCP will feed you shit and force you to praise their greatest literally. The tap water in their was turning full brown and smelly as shit in one city and the CCP tell you its fine, and anyone discuss the matter will be banned or face secret police.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    With that line of reasoning there is nothing the Chinese state can do that would ever get your approval.
    My comment was also not in reference to China burning garbage, but your blanket statement that burning garbage isn't eco.

    I'm no fan of the CCP, but I prefer to at least engage with the point rather than automatically dismissing anything they do as bad.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Clearly, I skipped many common sense points here. They burn garbage to generate power, profit, and all those power plants, of course, are state-owned. Would you think other countries are just idiots that don’t know burning garbage to generate power is better than just burying them?

    Big No. The toxic chemical compound produced by burning garbage is far more harmful than just burring them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Would you think other countries are just idiots that don’t know burning garbage to generate power is better than just burying them?

    Yes, and garbage incineration to generate power or other forms of energy is a thing that happens in many countries


    https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Waste-incineration-capacities-by-EU-MS-Medarac-et-al-2014_fig37_304917594

    The green dots represent electricity-generation plants, and the red dots represent plants that are used to generate both electricity and (presumably district) heating. Figure is from a paper from 2014, which I found after a quick Google.

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