Garbage in, garbage out: Incinerating trash is not an effective way to protect the climate or reduce waste
- Written by Ana Baptista, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, The New School
A trash truck discharges solid waste at the South East Reserve Recovery Facility's refuse storage pit in Long Beach, California, August 24, 2010.AP Photo/Damian DovarganesU.S. cities have been burning municipal solid waste since the 1880s. For the first century, it was a way to get rid of trash. Today advocates have rebranded it as an...
