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The truth behind burning waste for energy, revealed.
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Citations please.
Where do you get your information from?
Sounds like fake news
For next video try to put some arguments. This is just couple of claims, nothing else.
I don’t agree with point 6 – you actually can ‘disappear’ plastic, in that incineration irreversibly breaks apart the molecular bonds and converts them into other simpler compounds. While pollution as a byproduct is not ideal, significant concern is being raised regarding the large amount of microscopic plastic finding its way into the food chain, particularly amongst marine fauna. I would agree that Zero Waste is an admirable goal, but interaction is the only solution I can see for effectively disposing of the vast amount of single use plastic we consume worldwide.
These are just wasted sentences belongs to a child I think who doesn't know anything about waste to energy technologies! Can you give a real advice for the waste disposal? no… Are the landfills solution for waste disposal absolutely noooo. SO the best way is waste to energy my child…
Can you provide a list of sources?
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I can think of a few more expensive methods such as nuclear fusion. Also isnt the main byproduct of these facilities ash, which chemically strongly differs from most plastics?
I also am beginning to understand that no matter what energy system you choose, you will always have some amount of byproduct. It ties strongly with the conservation of energy principle and the impossibility of 100% efficiency or "Zero Waste" due to the second law of thermodynamics.
Please provide sources
Better to focus your energies on solutions that help, than spreading misinformation.
Well I’m sold…..with all that overwhelming supporting information referenced in your “facts” how could I disagree…
Sounds like misinformation…no sources cited
There is a right way to do it like AEB in Amsterdam, they recycle, close loop water, minimal pollution
This video is full of bullshit. You accuse the incinerator for generating pollutive gases. Then you said they have scrubbers. Then you said the boilers still generate pollutants? Did you even figure out the functions of each of them before you make up all these? Let alone the citations
lot of trolls here…learn not to burn you cavemen
This video is purely emotions without any sources cited. Watch this video explaining where all of the waste materials go: https://youtu.be/DROZUstnsnw
Sweden’s is doing it and there is nothing wrong with the air. How much did the electric company pay you to give disinformation to the public. True are false your full of shit! Fact!
I think recycling is primary. It's a must to extract plastic, paper, metals, and others for recycling. Then, there's composting. After recycling and composting, there's waste and this is the one that goes into the incinerator. According to the latest technology, the smoke that comes out is mostly water. So, it seems waste to energy does not replace recycling and composting. It only compliments them.
this is not the truth. please check your informations first instead produce such a bullshit video. thanks.
Over 60% of waste gets landfilled. Citing Zero Waste as a viable alternative does more harm than good. Should Zero Waste be pursued? Of course. But it's going to take time. Another alternative, recycling, has been around for decades, and still less than a quarter of waste is recycled. While the transition to cleaner alternatives is taking place, waste-to-energy prevents landfill methane from ending up in the atmosphere (methane is 80x worse than CO2 from a GHG perspective). If waste-to-energy plants were eliminated today, we'd have tons and tons of GHG going into our atmosphere as we wait decades for Zero Waste to figure out how to reshape all consumer supply chains.
You're welcome your 29 likes and 28 dislikes I just disliked your video to even stuff out
Ok, Guys we need two more likes to balance out the like/dislike ratio!
Soooooo, bury it? 🤔🙃
Wow this is blatant misinformation.
Operators of incineration plants actually get paid money by the government in some countries because the electricity produced from them produced much less CO2 than other methods. It really begs the question who is funding these types of organisations? I’ll bet money it’s not just concerned citizens…. Big oil, solar panel or wind farm technology companies perhaps?
Wrong! Gasification, pyrolysis, and incineration are different. In gasification, you don't actually burn waste. Gasification just separate molecules apart by heat. Incineration totally burns everything for getting heat to make water hot and make steam out of it. So this steam goes to stations to create energy.
Please tell me one city in an industrial country where zero waste is working??
Of course WTE is not 100% clean solution, but far far better than landfills, when state of the art filters are installed.
Here in Germany Austria Switzerland and many other European countries landfills are illegal and recycling rates are high. In our county the recycling center takes about 40 different waste sorts. But there is a rest which nobody wants and can't be recycled.
This stuff is sent to one of the cleanest wte plans on earth (97% under the strict German flue gas limits).
Know where are your arguments from???
This video was more of a commercial attempt rather than a video made to give useful intel
Compost also produce co2.
Gotta love low quality propaganda 🤷♂️
Ugh don't even get me started on 'recycling' and how much of a scam that is. Would be nice if we recycled our recycling… Which, you know, we obviously don't most of the time.
https://youtu.be/zm0jslIE1kk
This video will offer much more info on gasification, an actual and very sustainable method of recovering the gases and locking those pollutants into a glass like slag.
We should be concentrating on zero waste on energy from waste
https://youtu.be/98Z-FPSPteE
Zero waste is a fantasy. Reality is either landfill or incineration. And incineration is better than landfilling waste.