You’d have a lot less to bury if you burned it first, right?
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simplest answer.
cost and availability of land. as an example Japan has neither a cheap place to put garbage or the free land to bury it which leads to them burning an awfully lot of trash.
because Japan is a fairly obedient and group focused society people sort their trash into burnables and non burnables.
if NA was not so vast and empty burning trash would be much more normal..not exactly sure what the small European nations do.
Who is we ?
It’s been like 30 years that European Union banned landfill (when possible) and that incinceration is the standard method of wate disposal ?
Incineration costs money. Landfill makes money.
I work on a quarry, we dig sand and gravel out of the ground, then back fill the holes with building waste.
We charge ~£70 a load to tip waste in there (nothing hazardous, rubble, soil, clay etc) and our last hole took 1 year, at roughly 100 lorries a day.
That’s £7000 a day, for a year… To fill a hole that needed filling anyway.
Then we cover it with 1m of clean clay (from the next hole) 30cm of soil, and it’s back to growing crops (which we feed into a digestion plant to make gas)
US answer. Burning was common decades ago. Once we got environmental regulations (laws passed during Nixon reign, most of the basic regs written late Nixon/Ford), incinerators found that they weren’t cost effective if they actually obeyed the rules.
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when you dump trash in a landfill, it stays where you put it.
when you burn trash, the smoke goes all over the place.
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