Several international enviironmental groups are warning against the use of waste-to-energy (WTE) to generate electricity, saying the technology offered “false solutions” to waste management, is more expensive and likely to produce pollutants that are more toxic than those existing now.
“Incineration, in particular, stands out as one of the most environmentally harmful and costly waste disposal methods,” said the group Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) in an FB post.
“The industry greenwashes incineration as ‘waste-to-energy’ despite generating minimal amounts of usable energy,” GAIA said.
Incineration is the only known method to convert waste to energy.
The group said the incineration industry is exploiting and milking the falsehood of WTE to “access billions of dollars in federal, state, and local green, renewable, and sustainable energy…
