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Burning organic trash to make steam usually fine. If it were to decompose in a landfill, the same amount of energy would be released as would the same amount of CO2. By burning the trash ourselves, we get to use the energy of the trash rather than have it diffuse as entropy while polluting all the same same.
Gets a little more complicated when we talk about plastics, but that can be thought of as a form of oil recycling. Different set of pros & cons, but not the end of the world.
Organic trash is typically only 40% of trash pickup. Thus, what is happening to the other 60% trash; this is typically metals, etc. which do not burn and generate sludge that the incinerator then needs to dispose of in a landfill.
A better solution than incineration for organic trash is recycling and composting or anaerobic digestion. Both are higher priority for the circular economy and material sustainability.
Incinerators are a reasonable way to dispose of most types of waste, but the process used to make this decision doesn’t seem to be how we want the city making that decision. Concerning!
Poor governance, for a decision this big to be added at the last minute at an appointed-board level. An efficient way to hide things. We need reporters examining all city deals in depth.
This is the biggest scam of the incinerator formerly known as Covanta:
“Under the deal, Covanta promised to recycle at least 18 percent of the waste stream and increase the city’s recycling participation rate to 100 percent—because people wouldn’t have to opt into the system.”
Only 18 percent! Many cities’ waste stream has about twice that diverted to recycling.
The good news is that there is no minimum tonnage requirement under this contract. If the city ever gets its act together w/r/t recycling pickup, it won’t be punished for not sending recyclables up the smokestack.