Angela Zhang
speaker
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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Hey, Angela.
Hey, Emily.
Hey.
So lately, I've been biking to work, and I've been getting stuck behind the trash truck that comes down my street.
And I'm trying to dodge a smell, which is a fun time.
But I've also been wondering, where does all of this trash even go?
I assume it goes to a landfill, right?
Well, that's what I thought at first, too.
But in some places around the country, a portion of our trash goes to an incinerator.
Wait, so our trash is getting burned?
Yeah, it's getting burned.
About 12% of the trash we generate in the United States gets sent to these plants, called waste-to-energy facilities.
They convert the energy they get from burning the trash into actual electricity that we can use on our grid, which is kind of wild to me.
And the conversion of this waste to energy, is this a new technology?
Not really.
So people have been burning trash for a long time.
Like, New York City had trash incinerators way back in the 1800s.
So that's Marco Castaldi.
He's a professor of chemical engineering at the City College of New York.
So burning the trash, not new.
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