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China is running out of garbage. Now they want to burn their neighbors'.
(kdwalmsley.substack.com)
That apostrophe is doing some heavy lifting
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2025
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Neighbors of China:
That is a very important apostrophe.
Maybe the CCP can invest in harvesting ocean garbage, or importing all those single-use sachets they've been selling to the neighboring countries?
Incineration doesn't help the greenhouse gas problem though... It just takes garbage and puts it in the atmosphere. Not what the world really needs right now.
The greenhouse emissions problem depends on where that garbage would otherwise end up, and what would happen with it.
If the garbage would otherwise be recycled fully then incineration would seem like a worse option. But if the garbage would otherwise end up in a landfill, it leads to decomposition and methane production. Methane is one of the worst greenhouse gasses out there, so incineration might be preferable to just leaving it be.
I'm no expert whatsoever, so take my comment with a grain of salt.. I may be misinformed
Burn garbage isn’t eco!
From my understanding it can be done relatively cleanly with filtration, and its much better for the environment than letting it sit on a landfill generating methane
(Not an expert, so I might be incorrect)
Yeah, we all know Communist Chinese Government is great at supervision and transparency of their quality control. CCP will feed you shit and force you to praise their greatest literally. The tap water in their was turning full brown and smelly as shit in one city and the CCP tell you its fine, and anyone discuss the matter will be banned or face secret police.
With that line of reasoning there is nothing the Chinese state can do that would ever get your approval.
My comment was also not in reference to China burning garbage, but your blanket statement that burning garbage isn't eco.
I'm no fan of the CCP, but I prefer to at least engage with the point rather than automatically dismissing anything they do as bad.
Clearly, I skipped many common sense points here. They burn garbage to generate power, profit, and all those power plants, of course, are state-owned. Would you think other countries are just idiots that don’t know burning garbage to generate power is better than just burying them?
Big No. The toxic chemical compound produced by burning garbage is far more harmful than just burring them.
Would you think other countries are just idiots that don’t know burning garbage to generate power is better than just burying them?
Yes, and garbage incineration to generate power or other forms of energy is a thing that happens in many countries
The green dots represent electricity-generation plants, and the red dots represent plants that are used to generate both electricity and (presumably district) heating. Figure is from a paper from 2014, which I found after a quick Google.