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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.

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      8 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.