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.
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.
It is possible to burn waste and manage the pollution in at least somewhat safe manner. Finland and Sweden do it reasonably well with high temperature furnaces and filtering the exhaust gases either with mechanical filter or trough water. That also (at least as far as I know) requires that you sort out the waste and don’t burn stuff like electronics, metals and some other crap which can be effectively recycled and manage whatever remains properly.
So, it’s possible, but I have absolutely no idea if China does that properly.
That’s just a fancy bubbler (bong) 😂
Do not drink the forbidden bong water.
There are live pollution maps of the world if you need an idea if China does that properly but I‘ll have to warn you that you‘ll most likely be disappointed and somewhat terrified.
I meant that I don’t know if these trash incinerators are managed properly. I’m well aware that in general there’s a crapload of unmanaged pollution and a ton of other problems around, but like every other country China is slowly improving their stuff so it’s not impossible that new plants would be up to modern standards.
Some plants do, low bidders who get the government contracts don’t have much of an incentive though.