Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
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Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
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Re: Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
#2Ames, Iowa, home of Iowa State University, does something similar. All of their trash gets burned to generate electricity for the city. Seems to work quite well for them, been doing it for probably 30 or 40 years, now.
Re: Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
#3Better article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/europe/oslo-copes-wi...
Re: Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
#4Ames, Iowa, home of Iowa State University, does something similar. All of their trash gets burned to generate electricity for the city. Seems to work quite well for them, been doing it for probably 30 or 40 years, now.
How do they produce safe emissions from trash? They have a hard enough time when burning something where they control the input.
Re: Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
#5Better article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/europe/oslo-copes-wi...
This is a naïve but genuine question.. is shipping trash from the UK to Norway and then setting it on fire better for the environment than burying it? (Or, at the very least, is it better to burn trash than to extract and burn something else?)
Re: Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
#6Ames, Iowa, home of Iowa State University, does something similar. All of their trash gets burned to generate electricity for the city. Seems to work quite well for them, been doing it for probably 30 or 40 years, now.
How do they produce safe emissions from trash? They have a hard enough time when burning something where they control the input.
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Re: Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
#7Ames, Iowa, home of Iowa State University, does something similar. All of their trash gets burned to generate electricity for the city. Seems to work quite well for them, been doing it for probably 30 or 40 years, now.
How do they produce safe emissions from trash? They have a hard enough time when burning something where they control the input.
I have no idea. Here's a page about the Resource Recovery System:
http://www.cityofames.org/index.aspx?page=168
Re: Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
#8Better article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/europe/oslo-copes-wi...
This is a naïve but genuine question.. is shipping trash from the UK to Norway and then setting it on fire better for the environment than burying it? (Or, at the very least, is it better to burn trash than to extract and burn something else?)
Oh they burn it? I though they were doing that bacteria to methane idea?
Re: Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a naïve but genuine question.. is shipping trash from the UK to Norway and then setting it on fire better for the environment than burying it? (Or, at the very least, is it better to burn trash than to extract and burn something else?)
Oh they burn it? I though they were doing that bacteria to methane idea?
I don't know about the Swedish one but the Norwegian one in the other linked article says:
Oslo, a recycling-friendly place where roughly half the city and most of its schools are heated by burning garbage — household trash, industrial waste, even toxic and dangerous waste from hospitals and drug arrests — has a problem: it has literally run out of garbage to burn.
So it seems so, yeah :-(
Re: Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
#10The article mentions incinerators; I wonder how it is impacting air quality, specifically dioxin levels.
I recently saw this documentary which discusses various approaches to managing trash: http://www.trashedfilm.com/references.php#tabair