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The country now has more than 1,000 waste-incinerating power stations, representing more than half the world’s waste power capacity, according to the Global Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    But would the energy recovered from using it as fuel be more than the energy required to ship it to China?

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      11 hours ago

      The ships sending us Chinese goods have to return to China anyway. That’s why everyone was sending China their plastic to be “recycled”. Might as well just incinerate it.

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      2 days ago

      That’s a good question, but, would the waste then be properly disposed of? It may not be incredibly efficient right now, but less trash is less trash, right?