I understand it’s probably a more complex issue, but could it be similar to a 4th grade science project where you filter water through a bottle with a variety of rocks, sticks, moss etc?
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Because you can filter out large chunks of debris from water using filters, but can’t filter dissolved salt out.
Filtering toxic fumes is equivalent to that, when toxic molecues are pretty similar to air molecules when it comes to their abilities to pass through a filter.
There’re already garbage disposer that burn several safe-ish burnable garbage. But the operation is quite energy intensive. Combine this with how to collect the garbage and categorize it into what can or cant be burn can also be quite troublesome.
Ultimately, even when burned with a plasma arc, some of our garbage is still very toxic to us like mercury, cadmiun, nuclear waste, etc. We will still need landfills or some kind of hazardous waste storage.
Japan is doing something along the lines of your post with plasma waste converters/recyclers. Garbage gets sorted, recycled, where the leftover is burned and syngas is collected.
Ultimately, even when burned with a plasma arc, some of our garbage is still very toxic to us like mercury, cadmiun, nuclear waste, etc. We will still need landfills or some kind of hazardous waste storage.
Japan is doing something along the lines of your post with plasma waste converters/recyclers. Garbage gets sorted, recycled, where the leftover is burned and syngas is collected.
Because you can filter out large chunks of debris from water using filters, but can’t filter dissolved salt out.
Filtering toxic fumes is equivalent to that, when toxic molecues are pretty similar to air molecules when it comes to their abilities to pass through a filter.
There’re already garbage disposer that burn several safe-ish burnable garbage. But the operation is quite energy intensive. Combine this with how to collect the garbage and categorize it into what can or cant be burn can also be quite troublesome.
Ultimately, even when burned with a plasma arc, some of our garbage is still very toxic to us like mercury, cadmiun, nuclear waste, etc. We will still need landfills or some kind of hazardous waste storage.
Japan is doing something along the lines of your post with plasma waste converters/recyclers. Garbage gets sorted, recycled, where the leftover is burned and syngas is collected.
Because you can filter out large chunks of debris from water using filters, but can’t filter dissolved salt out.
Filtering toxic fumes is equivalent to that, when toxic molecues are pretty similar to air molecules when it comes to their abilities to pass through a filter.
There’re already garbage disposer that burn several safe-ish burnable garbage. But the operation is quite energy intensive. Combine this with how to collect the garbage and categorize it into what can or cant be burn can also be quite troublesome.
We can and we do, in waste incineration plants (sometimes called waste-to-energy plants). Usually non-flamable garbage like rubble and metal is sorted out and then rest can be burned. Biohazard garbage is only burned, it is illegal to do anything else with it.
Proper waste managment is:
1. Avoiding waste production,
2. Re-using (like cleaning glass bottle to be used again),
3. Recycling (like using smashed glass bottle as a raw material for glass production),
4. Using waste as fuel (that is the step you are asking about),
5. Proper and safe storage (landfill);
So in other words we try to organise our waste managment everywhere where it is economically viable in such a way, that every type of waste that can be burned and cannot be reclaimed as a material/ raw resource is in fact being burned.
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