http://inhabitat.com/sweden-plans-to-import-800000-tons-of-garbage-each-year/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Tue, 21 May 2013 14:17:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://inhabitat.com/sweden-plans-to-import-800000-tons-of-garbage-each-year/comment-page-1/#comment-397172 Michael Bauer-Leeb Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:54:59 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=453043#comment-397172 As economically intriguing and benficial such solution may seem, in the long run it is definitely not. Waste incineration is just fighting symptoms and all but tackling the underlying problem of a linear econmy dependent on exponential growth. Burning waste leaves 25% toxic residue behind, which has to be dealt with accordingy and quite costly. Further, burning trash means wasting huge amounts of energy. Just think of all the energy and material used to extract resources, manufacture and transport goods - hugely blown out the chimney. And for what? To start all over again extracting resources, manufacturing, and disposing of again and again. If we want to achieve real change we need to start reducing, reusing, and recycling heavily. We need to ask ourselves what we really need to live a good life, and we need to start thinking what world we want to pass on to our children and children's children and start acting accordingly. More of the same will do us no good, I'm afraid. As economically intriguing and benficial such solution may seem, in the long run it is definitely not. Waste incineration is just fighting symptoms and all but tackling the underlying problem of a linear econmy dependent on exponential growth. Burning waste leaves 25% toxic residue behind, which has to be dealt with accordingy and quite costly. Further, burning trash means wasting huge amounts of energy. Just think of all the energy and material used to extract resources, manufacture and transport goods – hugely blown out the chimney. And for what? To start all over again extracting resources, manufacturing, and disposing of again and again. If we want to achieve real change we need to start reducing, reusing, and recycling heavily. We need to ask ourselves what we really need to live a good life, and we need to start thinking what world we want to pass on to our children and children’s children and start acting accordingly. More of the same will do us no good, I’m afraid.

]]> http://inhabitat.com/sweden-plans-to-import-800000-tons-of-garbage-each-year/comment-page-1/#comment-397007 Seth Platt Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:26:42 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=453043#comment-397007 Waste Incineration is not Green http://www.no-burn.org/ Waste Incineration is not Green http://www.no-burn.org/

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