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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 Dovarganes

U.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...

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