Angela Zhang
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440 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2023
last heard 9 Sep
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But the facility also has to deal with what's left after all of the burning.
The trash is reduced to ash and then there are materials in it like aluminum or other metals that can actually then be sent to recycling and be recovered.
That's pretty cool.
How much energy, though, are these facilities actually producing?
Can I power my house with it?
Maybe.
The Spokane facility generates enough to power 13,000 homes each year.
Besides the energy this is all creating, are there other reasons why pro-incinerator people like this process?
Well, for Spokane specifically, the incinerator is the closest place to dispose of trash.
It travels a shorter distance than if it went to a landfill.
Also, Spokane sits on an aquifer, so the city didn't want to risk chemicals from landfills leaching into the water.
Plus, in general, waste-to-energy facilities also reduce the amount of trash because after they burn the trash, the ash that's left over after is smaller in volume.
And the facilities avoid methane, the major emission from landfills.
Although, Emily, speaking of landfills, I do have to say they are much cheaper to send trash to.
Okay, so incinerating trash is more expensive.
Totally.
So for a dollar per ton of trash, it's much more expensive to send to an incinerator.
Oh, okay.
Let's talk about the chemical byproducts of all of this, because I thought when you light trash on fire, it releases toxins, there's a lot of smoke.
How do they manage that?
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