Why Don't We Burn Our Trash?

Sweden is able to recycle 99% of their trash, some of which they burn. Why isn't this practiced in the United States?
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99 Per Cent Of Sweden's Garbage Is Now Recycled
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"There's a "recycling revolution" happening in Sweden - one that has pushed the country closer to zero waste than ever before. In fact, less than one per cent of Sweden's household garbage ends up in landfills today."
The sensible Swedes burn a lot of their garbage. Why can't we?
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"The Swedes generate a decent amount of garbage, just like everybody else-465 kilograms per capita of waste in 2010, or about 1,070 pounds per person. Aggressive recycling programs that hoover up about 50 percent of the country's waste have helped radically reduce the amount of junk going to landfills."
Energy Recovery from Waste
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"Energy recovery from waste is the conversion of non-recyclable waste materials into useable heat, electricity, or fuel through a variety of processes, including combustion, gasification, pyrolization, anaerobic digestion, and landfill gas recovery. This process is often called waste-to-energy."
Air Emissions & Clean Energy
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"Although municipal solid waste includes renewable resources, its use as a source of energy has been met with controversy."
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[@HelloDahling1]

Seriously, Paris has already figured it out. All the left over ash is mixed with cement to fix streets all around paris.

[@Marco-fc5uf]

That's done in Germany and some other countries too. Waste Incineration is the best waste management available at the moment

[@rightswap15]

Openly breaking Rule Pune, India - Air Pollution ​ kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3bNY6t_m6uLabc

[@kennethhudson8013]

Thats probably fly ash from coal burning power plants

[@iguanzie5378]

@1990 I was thinking the same thing

[@leerman22]

As long as it's burning stuff that is too hard, too energy intensive, or impossible to recycle, then I say burn it. Better than landfills.

[@beybladertrav1624]

And better in ocean, though.

[@Socal_Geo1]

Nope. Bury it and you will be sequestering the carbon.

[@LeoAutodidact]

Here in Central PA we seperate-out and recycle what we can, Burn the Rest, and use the smokestack-scrubber ash for Wallboard. The old landfill materials are being excavated and burned, the resulting (unusable) ash is then returned to the landfill, but it takes MUCH less volume. This increase in availible Landfill capacity is counted on the "Plus" side of the ledger, and has been running a paper-profit for years, not to mention extending the Landfill's projected lifespan.

[@megagene]

My solution to almost everything is fire, so I'm all for it.

[@Lilix-nm1xh]

megagene I love the burn thing too. I am happy when I burn thing. Hi!!!

[@wordofthemosthigh771]

Fire bugs!😂

[@icebear788]

well first of all it releases bad air so

[@LiLiKOiOiOi]

Especially when your kids are misbehaving :)

[@commandercaptain4664]

*Jean Grey has entered the chat*

[@stusatt]

I have operated a solid waste incinerator and three liquid hazardous waste incinerators. All had scrubbers and one had a electrostatic precipitator also. They all had stack test done following a very strict protocol. These were at max flow with waste that we blended to represent a worst case scenario. EPA representatives were on site to observe. The incinerators did an excellent job. l lived about five miles from the plant. I wouldn't raise my children that close if I thought we had toxic emissions. Also, I wouldn't work for a company that would allow that.

[@jenwhite8832]

I want to hear more about the ash produced, the chemicals released into the air, the filters used, the effects on the people who live around these plants and the people who work in them, and how the air quality around the plants is monitored, both by the people who manage the plant and independently. Where is the oldest incinerator? How has the health been over time of the people who have lived around it? Are there people who actively monitor the health side?

[@amandaggogo]

Sweden has always had their shit together, we all just need to try to be more like Sweden.

[@lisve]

amandaggogo you, I like your way of thinking!

[@dvorapat]

amandaggogo or Switzerland.

[@Grimfang999]

amandaggogo Sadly Sweden is trying to be more like us. Scandinavia is not exempt from the denationalisation agenda around the world right now, despite being the top ranking region in basically everything.

[@username7735]

grimfang999 Tell them to stop. ITS A TRAP!

[@Criticmasterz]

amandaggogo Be more Sweden and step up World!

[@cassandrarose11]

Why? Because in America, the country is dominated by large companies primarily oil/energy. Europe has their head on straight. They think of What's best for all, not the best interest of big companies. otherwise, we'd burn our trash too.

[@frendiom]

Kassandra Lynne Rose Sullinger Actually... Europe has a council which regulates most of the companies and stuff like that... Sadly only sweden has really caught on the burn trash thing seriously.

[@Fr00stee]

Erhm these are in the US. They are called waste to energy plants

[@frendiom]

DiamondKnightHD And how much trash do you burn? like 0.2% of what you put on landfills. Our land? We import waste to keep ourselves warm.

[@Uninen]

Showing the metric units with the imperial ones is great -- keep on doing it!

[@Aurgelmir87]

Equally important as electricity production from garbage incineration is the production of heat used for district heating. Around 10% of Swedens need for warm water and residential heating is covered by burning garbage and another 3-4% is covered by utilising waste heat from industry.

[@Grarder]

I have known Sweden did this for a while now, so I was really excited to see you guys make a video on it. I think this is a great idea and we should implement it in the US sooner rather than later. One thing Sweden also does though is separate out recyclables from the trash before burning it; this is a necessary step in the process to make it as clean as possible.

[@Scyrixus]

My inner Swedish patriot is smiling. :)

[@megaelliott]

Scyrixus Du gamla, Du fria, Du fjällhöga nord!

[@savagepinksock]

Scyrixus patriotic about a country who defends rapists if they're foreign, has banned criticism on emigration and constantly demonizes men and young boys

[@cropkillaz]

Välfärd

[@Klisteristhashit]

***** I don't belive you to be the holder of the most nuanced or particularly well informed oppinions on this matter as what you claim is very far from reality. I'm in no way a patriot but what you are assertings is just plain false, sure there is a tabo in sweden on being too critical on matters concerning imigration but it's not banned in any way, there is one party that has gotten media attention that has been "demonizing" men and young boys and they didn't even get into the "riksdag"(our parliment ish) furthermore the claim that we "defend" rapists if they are foregin has no basis in reality whatsoever. In fact in Sweden what is, in law, defined as rape is much broader than in most other countries, the reason for many rape cases going unresolved is a lack of evidence. I'm from sweden btw if you did not guess that allready.

[@wootniceone]

megaelliott DEN ER EN LØGN DANMARK ER BEDST!

[@kinster02]

Here in Hawaii our trash is burned for power. This allows us to change our motor oil and throw into the trash using a special oil box.

[@frankchen1668]

Much nicer

[@trevornorton5297]

So what im hearing is, no matter what we are killing earth

[@lastshadow2542]

Yep

[@androidunderground40]

Trevor Norton humans are the problem

[@androidunderground40]

***** I've always known that. I'm a synical person

[@wade5941]

We can kill the earth. We don't have that kind of power and never will.

[@domtron8873]

Not killing earth. Killing people and animals.

[@honzothesloth8075]

Sounds like we should be following Sweden's lead to me. They have a lot of their shit together.

[@tornadoswe]

joecugo I'm guessing your country has a better way? Please indulge.

[@albins201]

Honzo the Sloth except for the crazy immigration.

[@honzothesloth8075]

G4nst4Ch33se I didn't know that :P. Granted, there are perverts and fools everywhere. I don't watch the news; videos like this are the only way I learn about the world around me.

[@maxt3137]

Honzo the Sloth no we dont. There are no more swedes here. only somalis and arabs

[@honzothesloth8075]

MR TKAY What? Why?

[@RandoomDude]

burning always ends with people talking about gasses, but more important than gasses is micro plastics ending up in our food and, recently discovered, can be small enough to penetrate the blood brain barrier, so i'll take toxic fumes over plastic in my brain any day

[@wizardsongs5409]

It isn't just gases. Microscopic particulate matter (PM2.5) is also produced as a byproduct of combustion. And PM2.5 is already a well documented and linearly correlated increasing risk factor for cardiovascular injuries. It has been found that combustion does not completely destroy plastic wastes and microplastics have been found in the fly ash and bottom ash of incinerated materials as well. So you would be inhaling the very thing you don't want getting into your brain as well as the other toxic gasses. And it would go directly into your bloodstream as if you had injected it with a hypodermic needle, moving to the organs and the brain.

[@Onionbagel]

What if we could simply 'catch' all these harmful chemicals as we burn them? And keep then contained for other uses...?

[@nefelilazaridi7048]

That's what Sweden waste to energy plants are doing ( and many oil companies ,cause they will be finned if not).They are using filters to trap the most harmful substances which are then stored I guess .

[@petercdowney]

It is possible. But it produces an extremely toxic sludge that must be disposed of in designated hazardous waste landfill sites.

[@jayvlugt3309]

@@petercdowney All things can be burned, even that toxic sludge, just need higher temperatures to break them down to their basic non harmful elements.

[@dominiclucero5225]

I'm a union Boilermaker and build power plants for a living. I can tell you bio fuel boilers create a diverse energy structure along with coal, nuclear, natural gas, and renewables. Not only that it creates hundreds of jobs for a whole economy of trades people that most of society is unaware of. Most people don't actually know how we get our energy. Big thumbs up on biofuel boilers.

[@Lunarri]

Much as it saddens me to say... I think we're just screwed. It seems like it's just way too late to fix this pretty planet. We had a bazillion chances and we ignored them all in favor of money and laziness.

[@Lunarri]

I agree governments and big businesses need to go, but they hold all the power, so we're SOL there.

[@deadasfak]

The hippie is strong in here

[@iZuqoo]

deadasfak I'd rather be a hippie than someone like you.

[@Fr00stee]

Lol all you need is to create a working fusion reactor and your problem is solved.

[@kyanhluong]

* there Billon of planet saving chance ingoned at the time you speaking*

[@thomassowell8593]

When I was a kid we had a 55 gallon steel drum in our back yard. We burned our household trash once per week. Reduced everything down to a few shovel full of ashes which we spread out to fertilize the lawn grass.

[@nousername5673]

Thomas Sowell Incinerators have filters that remove toxic pollution and are not as crude as a DIY setup. In Denmark, there is one called Amager Bakke. "Because of filtration and other technologies, sulphur emission is expected to be reduced by 99.5% and NOx by about 95% as well as dioxins and HCl[8][9] and it is claimed to be the cleanest incineration plant in the world.[3]" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amager_Bakke

[@EurrikkeEdward]

"Egypt deals with its junk in a rather unusual and interesting way" Heh.

[@Snowboarder54688]

DNews had a bump in the road about 2-4 weeks ago but I think they are slowly coming back. Good job.

[@GummadivalliShivaKumar]

Firstly, As a Post-Graduate student in Environmental Engineering, I Wholeheartedly appreciate your work and presentation on Waste Incineration. But I've a small question for u, As you have shown that Vehicular emissions and Gases from Landfill take the first and third places in man-made methane emissions from USA....What takes the second place??? As i'm from India, can you provide any info about top five methane emitters in India......Vehicles take first place (I know that), but can you provide list of next largest methane emitters in India.....Some people say Methane generated from farming takes up a place among/in top 5 list in India (But, I don't believe that becoz it makes up only 18-20% of total global methane emissions annually)......U have mentioned 'swedish Incineration plants are using scrubbers from removing toxic chemicals', Can u elaborate on that becoz there are many technologies in use to remove Particulate Matter in air {mainly Gravity settlers, Centrifugal Seperators, Wet collecters(Spray towers, Cyclonic, Impingement, Venturi scrubbers), Electrostatic Precipitators, Frabic filters (Bag house filters) etc...} & to remove gaseous pollutants {Adsorption, Absorption, Condensation, Combustion (Direct Flame combustion, Thermal Combustion, Catalytic Combustion) etc...}.....Don't Ignore & Please Give reply

[@choprasahab1234]

Very well commented bro But 3 years had been passed nd still they are not replying

[@Morenob1]

I think that they should build a company that takes in certain parts of trash and try to restore or sort things as much as possible for whatever good purpose it can have. like glass, paper furniture foods, plastic metals etc.

[@gulpispulp]

I’m for it, we just need to take precautions and plant more trees

[@petercdowney]

But what about the Air Pollution Control Residue? That's an extremely toxic sludge that is left when you scrub the toxic fumes out of the flue gases. It must be disposed of in designated hazardous waste landfills.

[@richardrankin3365]

if you contain the fumes , first the heat and air flow can be turned into energy, then force the rest threw a water entrapment filtration system that would act like a air filter, and you would reuse the water and only add fresh water when necessary

[@AJ-kj1go]

We should burn our trash. It makes a nice smokey smell and the smoke goes into the sky and turns into stars.

[@ResanChea]

They won't get out of our atmosphere and if we burn more one day they will over the sun or make earth hotter

[@The_Jzoli]

Now I wouldn't recommend going sniffing around burning plastic garbage. That stuff's toxic.

[@ThePS4Gamer2014]

Your thread is full of dumbases

[@redamber483]

Aj Koorstra yea ... and we help Global warming!!! minds like your one make all people to die Thank you... -_-

[@sh3lieMa3]

I smell sarcasm burning through the sky

[@Efflorescentey]

I love how the title question was "Why don't we just burn rubbish?" And the answer was "I don't know, why don't we?!!!"

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

I thought cows were the numba 1 source of methane.

[@Mallrick]

USA dont have that many lol but yes cows produce the most

[@NathanLoveridge]

He said landfills are the 3rd largest

[@commandercaptain4664]

Trash microbes: _it's free real estate_

[@AuroraAquarius]

Certain areas where I grew up and where I live now you are allowed to burn your trash. Otherwise you have to choose between pricy trash companies to pay to take it off your hands. I've only known one person who actually did burn their trash regularly, but I saw it as a very toxic practice.

[@samkabodvand5333]

Sweden is the best

[@moiquiregardevideo]

I prefer recuperate/re-use to recycle, particularly for electronic. The trransistor are so good that most TV, amplifier, microwave oven are still working when I collect them from garbage. Actually, LCD and plasma TV often get damaged by the angry bird that trowed itself on the screen when the other bird is suspected to be a bad bird. Even so, the back light is usually working fine. So LCD TV can be transformed into efficient light for the garage. Or it can be used as a light table for artistic work. For plasma TV, there is excellent power supply which can be used as lab power source. These plasma TV usually provide more than 1 Amp at 200 vol. A 24 volt power source of 5 amp is also perfectly working in these plasma tv.

[@akeemperez8509]

There needs to be a way to separate the carbon from the oxygen molecules while it is burning. Like a catalyst for burning trash. If there was an invention like that it would be a revolution in clean burning.

[@akeemperez8509]

Oh yeah they are creating something like than now 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲 m.phys.org/news/2014-10-oxygen-molecules-carbon-dioxide.html

[@superfluoushero]

Akeem Perez God made one its called a tree just needs water and its is solar powered which is a double plus

[@flaplaya]

Akeem Perez How about all the Chlorine and Cadmium? Lets not forget about Arsenic, Lithium, Lead, Chromium, Nickel, Antimony and Mercury!!! How your comment got approved I will never know??? (actually I do but will be gracious) All those metals poison any type of catalytic conversion. Toxic stew anyone?

[@calitrav16]

Separate the carbon from the oxygen? So don't put anything into the air? Just leave it solid? What would be the point of burning it then?

[@akeemperez8509]

calitrav16 as a solid u can use carbon ad a light weight material that is 10 times stronger than steel

[@After4th]

Japan and Singapore too where everything combustible is incinerated. They have no space for garbage and what's incinerated becomes land reclamation. In addition to the strict recycling programs where you have to separate and drop off. You can have clean incinerators within the busy city.

[@peathedisneyfanmediacorner6160]

Why can't we burn trash like in Toy Story 3?

[@cjwavy3929]

It wouldn't go anywhere

[@xxtryhardxx1620]

Bro fr

[@commandercaptain4664]

We would just be recycling tears.

[@MrUks]

I'm not a chemistry genius and only have basic knowledge of it, but wouldn't it be possible to cut down on the emissions by somehow changing most of it into chemical powders or liquids that could be used for chemical and biological labs?

[@zedirich7]

I recycle 100% of my junk... in fallout 4

[@commandercaptain4664]

Far more people would be willing to recycle... if they didn't have to pay for its disposal. That's why pop bottle returns are a thing.

[@JessicaSue]

I thought this to myself a couple years ago...and Sweden actually uses it. Crazy.

[@unlockingsnow73]

I might sound like an idiot but I haven’t seen someone ask this question already anywhere. What if we dissolved Plastic with acid? I’m generally curious. I don’t know much about acid except that certain types can definitely dissolve plastic. I also don’t think this would cause c02 but I could be wrong.

[@ifmondayhadaface9490]

It’s not necessarily going to go away though. Only a really strong acid like Fluroantimonic acid can dissolve plastic. And now you have a mixture of plastic and much more toxic fluorine..

[@applecider3616]

1. You will need a strong acid 2.You would need a shit-ton of a strong acid and analytical grade acids are expensive af 3. Where will you store your trash-acid mixture ?

[@LiLiKOiOiOi]

Hmm

[@aleksveyg22]

We should certainly build furnaces to burn the trash and then recycle the fumes coming out of the burning, i.e. turn CO2 back into oil, methane into energy, etc.

[@jiminverness]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKOrZJJunK-XpNk

[@poonczey]

"My solution to mist of my problems is to light them on fire". That'd be a messy divorce mate!

[@Martin-xh1hd]

Just burn the trash and redirect the fumes with an extremely long exhaust pipe to space

[@Imachowderhead]

We have a huge landfill in the next town next to where I live in, its an eyesore and it stinks to high Heaven.

[@Imachowderhead]

@Elie S. G. They did that in my state too. Check out mount trashmore in Va Beach, VA.

[@Imachowderhead]

@Craig F. Thompson no it's a skate park.

[@Imachowderhead]

@Craig F. Thompson www.vbgov.com/government/departments/parks-recreation/parks-trails/city-parks/Pages/mount-trashmore-park.aspx

[@al13nb0y]

So the CO2 released by burning plastic is just returning to the "natural" earth cycle of gases ... Didn't know a big part of plastic used and thrown away isn't produced with mineral oils anymore.

[@sannahankimakijakobsson7222]

I'm I the only swede here?✌🏼️

[@iphone4wsom3]

Sanna Jakobsson Nej! :D

[@linusheim]

Hej! :D

[@mrfogle99]

Linus Heimdal Jag heter också linus. same-name love. the best love.

[@gustentingstrom8920]

mrfogle99 jag heter inte linus men får jag va med ändå?

[@mrfogle99]

love is love. du är med

[@MatTaNg100]

People don't want a trash burning facility in their backyard? Right cuz a landfill is much better

[@arthappyneko]

maybe i should be recycling.... :0

[@myusernameissoobnoxiouslyl9407]

Not maybe, you SHOULD.

[@flaplaya]

***** You can draw well Mei! Never let anyone tell you, you can't!

[@arthappyneko]

fla playa oh, uh, thank you. :)

[@kittenassassin]

When people are say "We are reaching the carrying limit of earth!" I under stand perfectly. But, I think by the time we are suppose in danger we will have found more efficient ways to day things that seem crazy today, but will soon become the norm... hopefully.

[@Jpenno]

*OZONE* *LAYER* *HAS* *LEFT* *THE* *CHAT*

[@erinmurphy6993]

You can also use plasma gasification to reduce the waste gases from burning trash to negligible levels. Plasma gasification is a process which converts organic matter into synthetic gas,[1] electricity,[2] and slag[1] using plasma. A plasma torch powered by an electric arc, is used to ionize gas and catalyze organic matter into synthetic gas and solid waste (slag).[1][3][4] It is used commercially as a form of waste treatment and has been tested for the gasification of biomass and solid hydrocarbons, such as coal, oil sands, and oil shale.[3] Pure highly calorific synthetic gas consists predominantly of Carbon monoxide (CO), H2, CH, among other components. The conversion rate of plasma gasification exceeds 99%.[8] Non-flammable inorganic components in the waste stream are not broken down. This includes various metals. A phase change from solid to liquid adds to the volume of slag. Plasma processing of waste is ecologically clean. The lack of oxygen prevents the formation of many toxic materials. The high temperatures in a reactor also prevent the main components of the gas from forming toxic compounds such as furans, dioxins, nitrogen oxides, or sulfur dioxide. Water filtration removes ash and gaseous pollutants. The production of ecologically clean synthetic gas is the standard goal. The gas product contains no phenols or complex hydrocarbons however circulating water from filtering systems is toxic. The water removes toxins (poisons) and the hazardous substances which must be cleaned.[9] Metals resulting from plasma pyrolysis can be recovered from the slag and eventually sold as a commodity. Inert slag is granulated. This slag grain is used in construction. A portion of the syngas produced feeds on-site turbines, which power the plasma torches and thus support the feed system. This is self-sustaining electric power.[

[@TheInteriktigt100]

I mean, I don't want to brag or anything but we Swedes live in a pretty great country. Excluding all the racists of course

[@Farfetchd.]

TheInteriktigt100 and STD's...

[@TheMrkiddi]

TheInteriktigt100 and all the rape

[@Farfetchd.]

***** How do you measure such a concept?

[@khansen6736]

Hey! It's OK to be racist, ScandinaviaMasterRace

[@AwsomenessRain]

***** man if Sweden is one of the least racist countries... ...the rest of the world must be pretty damn racist

[@jules_freeman]

It’s like there’s no way to get rid of trash it’s just always going to be there and build up

[@BlackEpyon]

And one again, the rest of the world crawls into the 21st century whilst America runs in reverse back into the cave.

[@JohnSmith-mg5ve]

the rest of the world??????? ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH go watch the garbage city in egypt video also see the MASSIVE mountains of trash in india . you are a fucking moron america is better than you deserve.oh yeah also go see the shithole countries known as haiti and pakistan

[@commandercaptain4664]

2:35 Cows: Moo me fart poison air moo. Trash microbes: _it's free real estate_

[@nbharakey]

"Released CO2 from burning trash comes from the stuff that was part of the earth's carbon cycle." But not atmospheric carbon cycle. Check your trash bin. It is basically all plastic and it comes from oil.

[@petercdowney]

A lot of it is plastic, yes. There will be some types of paper (such as napkins, tissues and paper towels), but yes. There will be a lot of plastic of different types. Any CO² produced on top of the dioxins and furans and other toxic fumes will be carbon that has been locked out of the carbon cycle for millions of years.

[@juancuervo4809]

We actually do burn our trash. Covanta has 2 plants within 20 miles of each other in New Jersey. One of the plants is located at a power companies main generation station to directly sell the energy back. Check out their site.

[@AmtrakEnthusiast]

In Cape Cod, MA, trash is exported via the Mass Coastal Energy Train (ET) to a site in Rochester, MA where it's burned for energy.

[@cycleplumber]

Lissette's video on Egypt's garbage solution isn't available. Would you please fix the link or restore the video?

[@Naomi_Boyd]

When I was a kid living in a very rural area, we didn't have garbage pickup. We had to burn our trash. That meant that we had to separate our non-burnables and haul them off to be recycled. Now I live in an urban area where the garbage truck runs every week and I don't recycle nearly as much. Nearly all of my trash goes in the same can and gets toted off to the same landfill. Make of that what you will.

[@SHUBHAM261]

I have been seeing that whenever you are mentioning about any other inside a video you are not giving the link of that video in the description. So that needs to be improved. Reply me if you think I'm right .

[@sebbes333]

DNews 3:17 I have personally been visiting the oil power plant in Karlshamn (Sweden), they have such advanced smoke cleaning that they can use raw oil as fuel, raw oil contains much sulfur, but they make plaster out of the sulfur, that later for example might be used to make walls in houses, that's some really awesome recycling, don't you think? More info can be found here, I suggest you copy paste the Swedish version into Google Translate to extract as much information as possible (maybe add to the English version too?) sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlshamnsverket encrypted.google.com/#q=translate

[@willgreen8310]

My dad works for a company called wheelabrator which builds incinerators. Its really cool and I think its a great idea!

[@cycleplumber]

The link to the video about how Egypt deal with its trash is broken. Seeker, do you have any intention of fixing it? I can't seem to find the video independently either. Does it even exist anymore?

[@imtherealblueberry]

im from Sweden and i have worked at Renova, Renova is a trash burning facility that produce electricity and warm water for Gothenburg city, they were the cleanest trash burning facility in Sweden when i worked there and they had big plans to make it even cleaner and was almost ready with the build of a SOx reducing step. to learn the burning stage, electricity and warm water system of the facility that was easy but it has allot of maintenance, but when i came to cleaning the hot gas there were tones of things to learn, only the water cleaning system was way harder than burning,electricity and warm water system combined, and the scrubber system was 50 times bigger and much more complex then the water cleaning system but the maintenance was low. even if it was very much to learn it was a interesting work place :)

[@rasputin7633]

Stop referring to it as "burning trash". They incinerate it. And Japan does both heavy recycling and incineration.

[@tatianatub]

3:04 flaming heaps of thrash sounds like a awesome name for a band

[@Anonyminded]

All we need to do with trash is to establish a cycle. That means when we throw away something we can either recycle it or burn for energy, but we first need to separate trash. That is the most important thing to do, so buy yourself more bags and separate trash. Just look on the landfill here 0:23, how much plastic is there. I am separating just plastic, glass and paper and the rest trash usually just organic waste. I would welcome if I could separate metals, but that not yet established in the area where I live. Also pls do not throw away any electric appliances, batteries and so on with the rest of the trash and take care of them properly.

[@gordonokumu1337]

"Egypt deals with its junk in a rather unusual and interesting way"....then I wait to hear about that "

[@mikedelmonaco6226]

Land disposal is more economical. At some deposits of refuse the amount of dunnage heigth is cost effective. Incineration use's a lot of diesel to stoke the refuse. What can be said shipping waste far distance to a landfill does as well.

[@WIZ56575]

We're giving this video a thumbs up even those guys didn't know were mostly ignorant to the facts. And I'm not talking about the number facts, we're talkin about what to do with all that smoke reburn it.

[@deannarobles2700]

Good idea! But doesn't burning trash still create a lot of acidity in the air?

[@alextheskaterdude07]

They do burn trash. It’s called waste to energy. Doesn’t pollute air like you’d think. It’s filtered well.

[@budgiecat9039]

Remember when Doc from Back to the Future converted the Delorean to burn trash instead of gas?

[@SoraHjort]

I like Japan method. Everything that isn't recyclable has to be burnable. So things like Styrofoam aren't really used much. If I recall correctly, they do this for two reasons, one, they don't have room for landfills. Two, they love their nature. And I can't blame them, they have a beautiful country. Infact, just about every country has it's own kind of beauty to their nature. If only people from other countries realized the same of their own countries.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

the reason why i'm not 100% opposed to it if there's a filter is because its not as heavy on the fossil fuel reserves we have, cuts methane emissions, and prevents the heavy metals that normally leach into ground water from landfills from going in. But its NOT a cure all. The best possibility would be to use what electricity we can from fossil fuels to manufacture wind turbines and scale up a sweet gadget I heard about that can sequester carbon dioxide in a chamber using water and can be made into a lifesize tree shape. These "artificial trees" ought to be investigated as a way to end climate change but can't.

[@RandyLy]

I got a crazy idea. How about we incorporate nuclear power plants into this equation. We can use the heat produced from power plants to also generate some heat necessary for this process? It would be like a hybrid power plant. In the end, yes we still produce radioactive material and hazardous byproducts from the trash, but that saved space from the loss of mass can then be placed in the landfill that would have been used for the untreated trash.

[@Fusions-xl3sh]

so much billionaire in the world and none of them making machines for better garbage disposal sad

[@adityatukati]

The biggest problem is that all the companies do NOT take back their product once used. Like a Coke Plastic bottle or a Car Engine Oil Can 5 Ltr. We use this and throw, Rather than all companies should take back the used products - Clean It, Refill It, Seal It and Sell it. So the whole process of Trash Pileup will end. I still don't understand whats so strange about this that companies do apply this simple method.

[@TheRedRuin]

Build an incinerator which has the facility to pipe CO2 deep underground, (not at the surface as with landfills, the reason why methane escapes into the atmosphere.) The piping of CO2 deep underground is called Carbon Capture.

[@theresastewart9541]

Believe burning trash was considered to be too expensive in the past. But we cannot keep creating landfills that are toxic in and of themselves, liners crack and eventually we will have problems with contaminants in land and water. So integrating the use of burning trash is another method we should explore and implement with recycling 100% of trash as our ultimate goal.

[@IWouldLikeToRemainAnonymous]

Love it when people represents Sweden like this, because I am swedish. Besides, this recykeling thing is one of the things swedish people are the most proud of, just take me playing simcity (2013), I allways have the burning facilities at the garbagedump, Allways!

[@crockpot5194]

The Egyptian part is like Sanford and son picking up garbage and reselling it back

[@deepSea__]

For it. But with the draw backs, we could just not use some of the stuff that would release sulfur. We could bury it. Compost it. Recycle it. Reuse it. Reduce it. And then what's left, we may put it on a land fill.

[@bacawaka2813]

A power plant next to me pretty much vacuums the methane from the land field and burns it in a turbine. Producing the energy demand for peak power. Granted they buy the non peak power from a coal burning plant because the methane produced isn't enough for 24 hour operations.

[@2009mouser]

I like the idea. Yes, we should reduce the waste we reproduce, but no matter what, we're still going to produce that waste. So, we need to find ways to further cut down on the extent of what goes into land fills. On top of that, we can get some energy out of it.

[@CriticalEatsJapan]

Here in Japan we must separate our trash depending on whether it can be burned or not...

[@wfldfire]

waste to energy would be a great idea, especially near major urban centers, we could cut down on transportation costs and power the city.

[@ZarliWin]

In Hawaii the idea of land for landfills is really limited. We were forced to build a pretty good waste to energy facility.

[@jeremyr7089]

My neighbors burn every tiny bit of there trash then dump the ashes in a 100 x 100 x 20 pit of ash that they cover with dirt when it's full.

[@blablibliblu514]

Pronunciation of Göran is like: Yes-es+fur-f+ah+n (Yur-ahn)

[@commandercaptain4664]

fhtagn

[@thomasd9424]

Plus added bonus of District heating from these plants.

[@ThePLAYBC]

I’m sorry but it’s simply wrong that trash has been within the carbon cycle. Plastic is mostly made of oil which has been in the ground therefore not part of the carbon cycle.

[@BrittTheNarwhal]

A lot of farms/rural homes burn their garbage. My grandparents have done it for decades.

[@zachcrawford5]

1) Burning trash IS recycling 2) not everything that burns makes CO2 3 Although I don't recomend it SO2 has a cooling effect on the atmosphere

[@picobyte]

Incinerators FTW! Dutch and Swedish incinerators save lots of trash transport,only put out CO2 and some ash that gets recycled by the concrete industrie,saving them some energy in concrete production.

[@lathapauline1063]

Raising such question is insane. We need to minimise the garbage accumulation.

[@runedrag36]

This video portrays methane in a very negative light, which I was not expecting. About an hour and a half away from where I live, there is a city that uses the methane produced from landfills to power modified police cars and garbage trucks. It's pretty cool, and makes using landfills better for the earth than burning the trash that would have put in it.

[@charleszellerjr.3141]

In Baltimore the trash trucks are lined up at the incinerator everyday !

[@youarefakenews9945]

My fart has more methane than landfills.

[@sgrannel]

Recycling of noncombustible components like glass and metal and burning the rest is an obvious solution that can be used if materials and landfill space become more expensive someday. The decision to do this should be dictated by market forces and should require no special bins, and no mandates if done properly and for the right reasons.