Angela Zhang
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440 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2023
last heard 9 Sep
Angela Zhang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, so open-air fires definitely do that.
And it's true that older incinerators might have also had a lot of these problems.
That's Marco Castaldi.
Again, I should also say that he's on the steering group for the Waste to Energy Research and Technology Council.
That's a nonprofit headquartered at Columbia University.
Marco says that systems for combustion and filtering have improved and they're able to better monitor the emissions that they're creating.
That being said, there's definitely some toxic emissions that the facility has to deal with.
First, there's the ash after the recyclables have been removed.
And this ash is pretty nasty.
It has chemicals like mercury and lead.
The other part is what you mentioned, the smoke and the gas, which contains a cocktail of chemicals.
So the facility has to filter all of that out.
And each facility might be a little bit different, but the one in Spokane injects chemicals to neutralize the toxins and then physically filters out the particulates in these giant fabric filters.
That's pretty cool.
these modern facilities.
So how do the anti-incinerator people feel about these innovations?
They don't think it's enough.
So GAIA is an international organization that was founded to advocate against incinerators.
One of their main arguments is that incinerators produce toxic emissions that are bad for your health.
So like we said, a cocktail of gases.
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