When we think of incineration we naturally think of burning. Rightfully so seeing as incineration is essentially the burning of an object or objects. When we think of incineration we dont think of wasting, we think of burning. When our general public thinks of using incineration to dispose of garbage they assume that our the incinerator is going to have a filter on it that gets rid of all the harmful byproducts of this combustion. When people think of a garbage incinerator they dont normally think of waste or pollution. Yet incineration of our garbage is both of these things.
Incineration as a waste disposal method is basically the burning of waste. The one primary rule of our universe is that matter cannot be destroyed but rather converted into different forms. Incineration is not exempt from this rule, there is a byproduct to incineration just like there is a byproduct to a normal fire. As seen in the informative 3M Canada video, the gaseous byproduct of incineration passes through various cleaning ag
Finally incineration is wasteful. When waste comes to a incinerator there is no attempt to make use or recycle it, the waste is just burned. Taking Guelph, Ontario's program as an example up to 60% of that waste could have been recycled rather than incinerated. Not only that but all this energy is being wasted just to burn the garbage when most of it can be used again. If an incinerator had to burn 100 tonnes of aluminum cans it wouldnt think twice about saving a single one for metal recovery, it would simply burn them and probably release one dangerous metal into our air and leave a lot of expensive ash.
Incineration is a dangerous thing. A lot of energy is used and the product is pollution. It is like a giant pollution machine. All that just to dispose of garbage. Most of the garbage can be recycled too but is burned anyways wasting precious commodities like paper, metal, and plastics of which most are nonrenewable and when burned are gone forever. It doesnt make sense to use incineration for anything.
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