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Is burning trash a good way to handle it? Waste incineration in 5 charts

  • Written by Ana Baptista, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, The New School
The Wheelabrator Waste to Energy Plant in Saugus, Massachusetts, has been burning trash to generate electricity since 1975.Fletcher6/Wikimedia, CC BY

Burning trash has a long history in the United States, and municipal solid waste incinerators have sparked resistance in many places. As an environmental justice scholar who works directly with...

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