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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But using the burning process as a deliberate source of energy, that's newer, since the 1960s.
And to be clear, we no longer have incinerators in residential buildings.
Incorrect.
Yes, you're not carrying your trash to the incinerator in your building.
At least last time I lived in New York, this is not a thing.
Yes.
Still, Emily, not everyone's a fan of waste to energy.
There's actually this big counter movement of advocates that have successfully shut down plants all over the country.
I talked to Jessica Roth, who's part of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, or GAIA.
Today on the show, we dig deeper into the story of where our trash goes.
How does an incinerator work?
And is the story as clean as it looks?
You're listening to Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.
For three weeks in 2020, part of my Seattle neighborhood was taken over by a protest occupation.
But it ended in tragedy.
Join me as I investigate the unsolved killing of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr.
Listen to We Keep Us Safe on the Embedded podcast from NPR.
So, Angela, we are talking about waste-to-energy plants.
These are facilities that can burn our trash to create electricity.
How do they work exactly?
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