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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.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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      20 hours ago

      Do you reckon China’s management of landfill would be extremely competent and clean compared to their management of the incinerators

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        19 hours ago

        If you were to drop the “extremely” from the description, maybe but not necessarily. Let’s see how the cancer statistics look for population centers downwind in a decade or so.

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            13 hours ago

            I don’t know. Hard to make those predictions in the absence of good emissions data. I would expect cancer rates to be higher than in comparable areas that are not downwind of a trash burning facility though.