Wednesday, October 30, 2013

two articles- continental drift and incinerators

The first article called "Continental Drift-How Much Might UK Waste Exports Grow? explains how Eunomia is headed for overcapacity and they are scared that soon the trash will build up so much that it will fall all on them. This article shows the different imports and exports from UK to other places. Most of Northern Europe has overcapacity as it shows on the maps. This article explains how exporting is better then incinerators as the UK does. The big question in the future for UK is if they should continue with the use of incinerators or even make them bigger. 
The next article "Burning waste has many negative environmental, social and health consequences" by Gaia explain how incinerators are very harmful because it is filled with many toxic chemicals that effects our air, water, and land. It is also stated that these toxins enter our food chain and they can cause many heath issues. They also explain how the ask from the incinerators need to have their own landfills because of all the ash. Due to the fact that this is a finite planet, it is crucial that very end this habit of consuming and disposing. This article states that it is better to recycle then to do the waste-to-engergy incinerators. It is sad to hear that they are proposing to putting incinerators in poor countries, not only are they suffering from shortages of food and other necessities but they have to live with even more health problems due to the toxins from these incinerators. 

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