is it better for the environment to burn my bits of unrecyclable rubbish on my coal fire or bin it?

Question

i already recycle all my paper, card, glass and tins/cans and plastic bottles. We generally throw bits like crisp packets in the bin or on the fire, if it's lit. I also use biodegradeable bin bags from morrisons. I want to know if burning it is better than leaving it in a landfill site for sight for years?

Answer 1

try to be talking approximately an decision universe. In 2009 approximately 40 4.9% of the electrical powered potential became generated from coal or coal products. A whopping 20% became Nuclear (by utilizing a techniques the cleanest)

Answer 2

Your burning coal a couple of scraps of paper cant hurt much more most of your recycle will probably end up in a landfill any way.

Answer 3

oh, that's cute, you think that house hold trash is put into land fills. land fills only get the construction debris and other industrial waste now, all House hold garbage gets put into "bio incinerators" basically they take your garbage, through it into a truck that gets 5 miles to the gallon if your lucky, and drive it across the state, if not two states over, just to through it into a incinerator to make electricity, the funny part is, if they had thrown the gas it took to transport your wast to the incinerator in instead, you would get a higher out put of electricity, so it is actually better to burn your house hold garbage at home unless you live within 20 miles of the incinerator (95% of us don't)

Answer 4

Please don't burn it. Burning rubbish puts dioxins into the atmosphere. You will be poisoning yourself and everybody else.

Well done for recycling the rest.

Answer 5

Composting whats left would be best.