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		bamboozled on May 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Recycling Doesn't Work I believe if you burn garbage (including plastics) at high enough temperatures, most harmful gasses are also incinerated? Tokyo burns a lot of rubbish in super high temperature furnaces and uses the waste heat for other purposes, from what I understand these incineration plans don’t release any significant harmful pollution (excerpt Co2 of course)

firethief on May 12, 2019 [–]

That sounds like a silver bullet. The Wikipedia article on incineration isn't so rosy, but it doesn't have much on Japan specifically

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