by George Robertson Data analysis by the BBC shows that burning plastics is not unlike burning fossil fuels. In response to concerns about gas emissions from landfill sites, there has been increasing use of energy-from-waste (EfW) plants (alternatively waste-to-energy, WtE). Incinerating domestic waste to produce electricity seemed like a good idea at the time, particularly Read More…
Category: incineration
The Smiling Snowman
He was smiling still, the wooden snowman with the broken nose. He wondered: if his nose hadn’t been knocked off, what would he smell? He had some interesting companions in the pile he had recently joined. An old toilet; some pencil crayons – pink, orange, brown and blue; a VHS video tape (he remembered when Read More…
