More companies are avoiding landfills as part of sustainability goals and are instead burning their waste to convert it to energy.
Covanta chief sustainability officer Paul Gilman stands in front of the Stanislaus County switchyard on April 13, 2022, where the incineration of waste generates enough electricity to power 18,000 homes in the area.shows emissions coming out of the stack in its northern California facility are far below U.S. federal standards. That's because Covanta cleans toxins out of its combustion gasses using an intense filtration process, with activated carbon and limestone"scrubbers.
The EPA estimates that for every megawatt-hour of electricity generated, waste-to-energy emits an average of just over half a metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent gasses. Landfills emit six times that, andDioxin and mercury are some of the most dangerous emissions that concern critics of the process. GAIA points to facilities
"The amount of dioxin that's emitted from all waste-to-energy facilities in one year is less than a fraction of what gets formed from forest fires," Castaldi said.
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