I live in the mid-west where the eastern states are dumping tons of their trash because they are either out of room themselves, or they do not wish to simply smell it. True, they are paying to do this however now we have to smell it. I cannot believe that with all our technology we cannot find a way to burn the bulk of this paper trash and filter out the toxins. Is there something that I am missing here or is there just a lot of money being made behind closed doors at the tax payers expense?
2007-01-08 04:50:05 · 4 answers · asked by s7lmb 3 in Environment
Ya, I agree. The government doesn't want to spend money on trash disposal or processing, so they just dump it. About the burning part. Even if they took out toxins, burning would still cause pollution.
2007-01-08 04:59:01 · answer #1 · answered by Russianator 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The trouble that bothers u is that burning produces CO2 and that is BAD. CO2 is not bad the plants need it to grow . That is how plants produce their food and u want to stop it. A cubic ft of wood if u burn it will produce X amount of CO2 ,and if u bury it ,it will still oxidize and produce the same amount of CO2. By burring it u are building up a land slide effect that will be worse in time.
2007-01-08 13:39:00 · answer #2 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some places do burn trash. A plus is that you can use the energy to also generate electricity!
http://www.crra.org/pages/prof_faci_wte.htm
2007-01-08 13:18:46 · answer #3 · answered by Roman Soldier 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
burning is not a sustainable method for trash disposal...nor is dumping it into the sea...one thing that definitely needs to be done is we need to reduce the amount of packaging that many of our products come in (and reduce the amount of garbage 10 fold), force what packaging there is to be more biodegradable, and mandate recycling in many areas...if we did this our reduction in trash would relieve many problems
2007-01-08 13:14:54 · answer #4 · answered by izaboe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋