Modern waste-to-energy technology is actually less polluting than coal or gas plants, and China is using waste ash for building materials as concrete alternative.
Yes and it's got much better, and it is helping other third world countries with w2e technology: https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0625/c90000-20332502.html
GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml allinwonderornot @lemmygrad.ml 3w ago Chinese has made such advancement in waste-to-energy, that it is running out of trash to incinerate, and has to dig up old landfills dialogue.earth /en/pollution/four-years-of-waste-sorting-leaves-chinas-incinerators-short-of-fuel/
Modern waste-to-energy technology is actually less polluting than coal or gas plants, and China is using waste ash for building materials as concrete alternative.