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Environment & Energy

hunter

(40,899 posts)

1. Trash has to go somewhere.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Jun 4, 2026, 10:04 AM

Yesterday

Fiji buries a lot of it in informal landfills.

Some European nations incinerate their garbage for power but this has to be very tightly regulated. If it's not trash and biomass incinerators can be very dirty. Nations like Denmark and Sweden claim to do it cleanly but the record in other places, including the U.S.A., is not good. It's too easy for unscrupulous operators to cheat, even divert funds intended for pollution control to their own pockets.

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Australian Billionaire Proposed 900K Tons/Year Waste Incinerator To Generate Power; Govt Of Fiji Told Him To Fuck Off [View all] hatrack Yesterday OP

Trash has to go somewhere. hunter Yesterday #1

Re: Fiji buries a lot of it in informal landfills. OKIsItJustMe Yesterday #2

Australia should burn or bury their own waste in their own country IbogaProject Yesterday #3