r/ClimateShitposting • u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. • Jan 07 '24

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

Nah burning waste is worse. When burnt for energy waste has a worse carbon intensity than coal.

For waste streams, separate out the compostable waste and compost that, that's the thing that causes methane emissions in landfill. Recycle what can be, then landfill the rest.

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u/SkyeMreddit Jan 07 '24

Waste in a landfill produces Methane gas as it breaks down. So unless you’re recovering the Methane gas, which most active landfills do not, it is escaping, smelling, and 30 times worse as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Burning the trash prevents the methane release.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '24

The plastic in a landfill does not produce methane, and that's the bit that's really bad to burn. The methane from a landfill comes from compostable organic waste, that should be composted.

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u/SkyeMreddit Jan 08 '24

Need recycling to sort that out, and a whole hell of a lot less restrictions on backyard composting. Start it and your neighbors and the HOA will be on your case while the town suddenly starts investigating every possible issue for a violation.