47.50% - Incineration with energy recovery beats landfill on greenhouse gases, land use, and methane — landfill methane is 25x more potent than CO2, and waste-to-energy is the answer we keep ignoring.
30.00% - Waste incinerators recover ferrous metals through magnetic separation before combustion, giving you energy production and metals recovery in a single pass.
22.50% - Stockholm heats a quarter million homes on waste incineration; Japan has hundreds of plants operating safely near residential neighborhoods — we built a few in the 1970s and then dumped in landfills ever since.
The majority of combustible material in municipal waste is biogenic plant matter.
77.78% - Incineration with energy recovery beats landfill on greenhouse gases, land use, and methane — landfill methane is 25x more potent than CO2, and waste-to-energy is the answer we keep ignoring.
22.22% - Waste incinerators recover ferrous metals through magnetic separation before combustion, giving you energy production and metals recovery in a single pass.
50.00% - The majority of combustible material in municipal waste is biogenic plant matter.
50.00% - Burning biogenic carbon returns to the natural cycle, unlike releasing sequestered fossil carbon.
0.00% - The majority of combustible material in municipal waste is plant-based.
50.00% - Waste-to-energy plant
