> Incinerating waste and generating electricity from it is an alternative form of rubbish disposal that is good for the environment and solves the problem permanently, but expensive to operate up front.
well, I think you are slightly off the mark there.
If pumping out more CO2 that would normally be sequestered, or dumping out a boat load of particulates with nitrogen dioxide is an environmental thing, then yes.
My heating and how water did come from a very well run incinerator, but its not exactly the paragon of cleanliness.
It's more nuanced: environmentally landfills literally displace acreage of environment (which in my semi-uneducated opinion is often overstated) and have sporadic local issues e.g. material leaching into ground water.
Whereas power generated from incineration of trash displaces CO2 emissions from fossil fuel emissions.
'''Do the benefits of incinerating trash for electricity outweigh the costs thereof in comparison with costs of equivalent conventional electricity and costs of burying aforementioned trash?''' Absolute issues (e.g. NOx or CO2 emission) not in the context of opportunity cost are irrelevant to misleading.
well, I think you are slightly off the mark there.
If pumping out more CO2 that would normally be sequestered, or dumping out a boat load of particulates with nitrogen dioxide is an environmental thing, then yes.
My heating and how water did come from a very well run incinerator, but its not exactly the paragon of cleanliness.