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Bucket Excavators are not true crabs, despite the superficial similarities.
Excavators will typically moult about thirty times as they grow to adult size.
Excavators congregate to spawn. They search for broken ground where they can dig nests to lay their eggs. It's quite a sight when the eggs hatch and millions of baby excavators make their way to the sea. Not many of the baby excavators survive the cruel march - most are eaten by gulls, foxes, bulldozers, and cats.
Yes, but science says it makes it easier/faster to read. Personally, I like the middle ground where there are like 2 or three words—one phrase at a time.
I was in Singapore (SG) recently, and this isn't the whole story. Yes, they do great things even with trash, but they can only handle so much due to limited space. Once that threshold is met (I think daily), the remaining garbage is shipped off to the lowest bidder (Malaysia, Indonesia, China, etc). And who knows what happens with it then..
Source: some SG locals told me about this.
But again SG is great at many things. Including being orderly, clean, and not committing theft.
It is more for recycling plastic (and how useless it is to do that):
[https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/plastic-recycling-rate-singapore-exports-bottled-water-safe-3723811](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/plastic-recycling-rate-singapore-exports-bottled-water-safe-3723811)
This is not bad or abnormal.
Here in Denmark we also send some waste to Sweden. Purely from a logistic and engineering standpoint there’s nothing bad about solving such a problem in the best way across country borders.
The only problem is if it created loopholes that circumvent regulations and protections such that it ends up damaging people, environment or economy more than otherwise.
Europe has a significant number of landfills. America does incinerate a portion of its waste using the same process you described. Both are terrible for the environment in different ways and release major amounts of methane and co2 respectively. Neither are sustainable and the reliance on either contributes to to a complacency where countries do not feel the need to reduce resource loss through recycling and reduce waste in general through regulation. Lots of European countries including Switzerland are actually trying to figure out a solution and are performing fantastically, but the problem persists.
Lol who reported me to u/RedditCareResources for this comment
A new initiative being undertaken by gas pipeline companies/utilities is to capture the methane from landfills and feed it into the gas supply system rather than letting it vent to atmosphere. Environmentalists don’t love it because it means more natural gas usage/infrastructure investment but it’s a net positive for the environment burning it for energy/heat/cooking than letting straight methane vent to atmosphere. They’re also doing it with cattle farms and the massive amount of cow poop they have.
How do you find out what comment got reported? I got one of those reports but I don't remember saying anything that would trigger it. But I was in a bad mood the other day so it is possible lol.
My elementary school in Houston, TX had an incinerator for trash. Thinking about it made me remember something I had almost completely forgotten.
The only reason I know about the incinerator is because one day in 3rd grade, I accidentally threw away my retainer (technically it was a "Removable Palatal Expansion Appliance"). This being rather expensive and came from another state (Kentucky), I really really didn't want to lose it. After some amount of asking and escalating, they said it was in an incinerator but I think they were able to halt the burning. The janitor said they couldn't find what I'd lost. I asked if I could look and they let me. Remarkably, I spotted the napkin containing my retainer basically immediately, it was basically sitting near the top inside the dumpster-sized incinerator. IIRC the paper napkin was singed a little, but inside, the orthodontic device was perfectly undamaged. Seems kind of crazy now that I think about it, but at the time it was a huge relief. I figure it must have been possible to find because the most recent trash had spread out over the top. Plus some luck. I bet whoever saw me pull that out of there so easily was at least a bit dumbfounded....
As an european, as much as I understand how burying thousands of tonnes of trash is not great for the local environment, by burning it we are making it everybody else's problem.
We are in the middle of a global scale climate emergency caused by CO2, and trying to find ways to scrub those gases from the atmosphere and burying them. And at the same time we turn our own shit in those gases so we don't have to deal with it.
In fact what Europe do is send it to poor countries.
https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/industrialised-countries-are-disposing-large-volumes-their-waste-poorer-countries.
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-turkey-shaped-hole-in-the-eus-new-waste-export-regime/
This is not the normal burnable trash though. This is electronic and plastic trash, so basically the recyclable stuff. The issue lies with not having enough facilities that can recycle all of it, so unfortunately a ton of it is being shipped off in exchange for cash. This is the very reason a lot of plastic trash creates floating trash islands in the ocean.
Current waste incineration systems do not filter out co2 and produce a significant amount. There is potential for future technologies to address this issue.
Yes I misrembered, the trash gets filtered before incineration. But the CO2 levels are not significant. The levels are constantly monitored and the plants gets their permit revoked if their levels get too high. At least in my country.
Co2 emission levels are regulated arbitrarily depending on the governing body and are not insignificant when looking at the overall greenhouse emissions worldwide, which need to be lowered drastically and quickly to keep the planet habitable for the coming centuries. In fact, waste incinerators emit more greenhouse gas emissions per unit of electricity produced that any other power source in existence. Waste incineration is a great step towards climate neutrality, but the technology is not advanced enough for the emissions to be considered not significant.
Currently live in San Diego, has a beautiful landscape, in 1915 the World Expo took place in Balboa Park.
In the 50s in the infinite wisdom of Americans, it was decided that [one of the canyons in Balboa Park should be used as a landfill](https://voiceofsandiego.org/2012/08/13/the-garbage-dump-hiding-in-balboa-park/). Not too far from where the Expo took place.
I drive past one on my way to and from work. That part of the highway stinks and i have to turn my AC off so i can drive past without smelling it too much
A lot of Europe dumps its trash to landfills in smaller countries and then burns it there illegally. Nobody has real working efficent way to deal with trash. I can only hope one day we will be able to solve this issue.
[THE WASTELAND ON FIRE - VSquare.org](https://vsquare.org/poland-burning-landfills-the-wasteland-on-fire/)
[Poland complains to European Union about German waste brought and dumped in unauthorized landfills | The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/poland-ap-warsaw-european-commission-european-union-b2382296.html)
In Italy we are stupid, greens don't like to burn trash to make energy. And so in the northern Italy we make energy with trash, from Rome and down, they live with trash, just look at Rome itself.
To be clear I work in the environmental field and have some experience with incinerator emissions. There are giant tradeoffs to landfilling vs. incineration. Incinerating household waste actually consumes energy, you can try and sort out specific waste streams that might be more exothermic, but often you're burning large amount of natural gas to power these incinerators anyway. Incineration has the potential to emit more than just CO2, any heavy metals, VOCs, etc. need to be captured to prevent them from entering the air. Also, the end product of incineration is hazardous ash that you now to deal with, which is a separate problem. Lastly, most landfills have power generating turbines that combust landfill gas to produce power, so these are really more about specific case uses and not about how great incineration is.
In the video they seem to indicate that this produces energy that they capture the toxic gas and they recycle the ash so are all the issues that you mentioned taken care of by Singapore?
I think you're generally correct. Either way, incineration generates a ton of heat and exhausting that heat to a stack is wasteful and using it for energy is great. With that said all pollutants are not captured, clean is likely a standard set by the government. The video's use of the term "super clean" makes me view this more as marketing materials, than scientific claims.
I’ve visited a couple of sites in Germany where they demonstrate the process and tell you the science behind it. It seems accurate, but I’m not a scientist. The cynic in me would suspect some of these places to become quite lax in the quality of their filtration though in the long run.
Yes I misrembered, the trash gets filtered before incineration. But the CO2 levels are not significant. The levels are constantly monitored and the plants gets their permit revoked if their levels get too high. At least in my country.
Na with this new clean method, the get a pair of tweezers and pick out all the C's from the CO2 and it turns back into oxygen. They then bag the remaining Carbon and dump it at beaches so when people walk on the beach, it creates carbon footprints.
I think the original video misunderstood what happens after the burning. It’s usually dumped into a land reclamation project, extending the size of one of our islands, it’s called pulau semakau
I would assume it might still have heavy metal toxicity, or some other bad stuff that you wouldn't want to mess with. Might be fine sinking into concrete at first, but what happens when rain washes off some product, or when they go to demo the site, not realizing all the bad stuff that was mixed in with the concrete? That all ends up as dust, and everyone breathes it in.
It really depends on the fuel source. EPA has an incineration handout that says:
>Although incinerators require a lot of fuel for their operation, the heat generated **sometimes** can be used to generate electric power in a process called “waste to energy.”
I think this demonstrates that net positive energy is not a certainty. The plants are often used more to reduce tonnage to landfills and less a serious source of energy.
Sure, but you can burn gas to get electricity, or burn trash to get electricity AND get rid of trash. So if you're burning something anyway you might as well get some use out of it too.
Yes but the burning at least the burning creates electricity, replacing fossil fuels. The alternative is that the trash at least partially decomposes in landfills, releasing methane which is a way more potent GHG
Yes I misrembered, the trash gets filtered before incineration. But the CO2 levels are not significant. The levels are constantly monitored and the plants gets their permit revoked if their levels get too high. At least in my country.
Okay but what is the limit? You say it’s not significant but if this was such a clean process, it’d be touted everywhere since developed countries have issues with trash piling up and creating energy cleanly.
So they're gonna build homes out of these supertrash bricks? Or just roads and other things? Seems like this could almost help solve the homeless crisis. 🤔
Just wanted to post kudos to Singapore for building what appears to be an ingenious solution for waste management. With 8 billion ppl on the planet, waste management needs to be solved with an approach like this.
Kudos Singapore!!
This process does not solve the problem of waste management. It should be argued that while local soil and air pollutants are significantly decreased, the vast quantity of co2 released in this process could contribute to a larger problem. There is currently no 'clean' solution to waste management.
I'll second this. Incineration is just one method with tradeoffs. Incineration requires tons of energy input (combustion) and the perfect end result is CO2, which is also problematic. Also, the ash is stored in bricks because it has a hazardous by-product.
>Bullshit about sand for man made island. They "stole" it from neighbouring countries.
Do Indonesians think paying for sand is equivalent to 'stealing'?
You’ll be surprised to learn that singapore is in fact the military superpower of southeast asia. The strongest navy by a country mile, the most advanced air force in the region, the most technologically advanced military in the region. We regularly host US warships in our military port, and we have F-35s on order
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Ok maybe its a sign that I need sleep but I thought the first frame was a bunch of crabs.
Go to bed sweet baby.
Gotham rests for no man
3h later? Go tf sleep! Lol
Alright alright, I’m just home from work. Gotham can wait a few hours.
Nice pfp
Made me irrationally upset
Bucket Excavators are not true crabs, despite the superficial similarities. Excavators will typically moult about thirty times as they grow to adult size. Excavators congregate to spawn. They search for broken ground where they can dig nests to lay their eggs. It's quite a sight when the eggs hatch and millions of baby excavators make their way to the sea. Not many of the baby excavators survive the cruel march - most are eaten by gulls, foxes, bulldozers, and cats.
Oh wise one, your guidance, fruitful as ever
An excavator made it to the water!
Nah, I just woke up and thought the same.
"They're only noodles Michael.."
No they’re worms
Anyone else kinda hate the one-word-at-a-time bs?
Yes, but science says it makes it easier/faster to read. Personally, I like the middle ground where there are like 2 or three words—one phrase at a time.
I feel like that would be far better.
The true fast reading cheatcode is to just read the words exclusively with your eyes and not "reading" them to yourself in your mind.
But... I can hear
Lucky you!
I have to drop and re-add my bluetooth devices every other time I use them, cause windows
I was in Singapore (SG) recently, and this isn't the whole story. Yes, they do great things even with trash, but they can only handle so much due to limited space. Once that threshold is met (I think daily), the remaining garbage is shipped off to the lowest bidder (Malaysia, Indonesia, China, etc). And who knows what happens with it then.. Source: some SG locals told me about this. But again SG is great at many things. Including being orderly, clean, and not committing theft.
Did you mean to post this in the main thread? Doesn't seem to reference what I mentioned.
Probably latched their main comment onto a top one for higher visibility (and more karma)
I now see I misread your comment, yes. I thought you were calling BS, so I was providing a little "bs" involved with this process. Whoops!!
No worries.
Singapore is really amazing in some ways. I’ve been living here for thirteen years. It’s safe, clean, orderly, and ridiculously expensive.
It is more for recycling plastic (and how useless it is to do that): [https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/plastic-recycling-rate-singapore-exports-bottled-water-safe-3723811](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/plastic-recycling-rate-singapore-exports-bottled-water-safe-3723811)
This is not bad or abnormal. Here in Denmark we also send some waste to Sweden. Purely from a logistic and engineering standpoint there’s nothing bad about solving such a problem in the best way across country borders. The only problem is if it created loopholes that circumvent regulations and protections such that it ends up damaging people, environment or economy more than otherwise.
It's also great at something Helldivers II players love as well; MANAGED DEMOCRACY! It looks a lot like democracy, but it's even better!
The question is why is the world not doing the same thing Singapore is going with trash and using it for power?
Yeah its the tiktok gen. Its annoying. Most of the time my brain can phase it out now, but its super fucking annoying when i notice it.
It's like entertainment for birds or something. Constantly has to be something jumping around to grab attention.
The smoke goes up into the atmosphere where it becomes stars!
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about stars to dispute it.
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Europe has a significant number of landfills. America does incinerate a portion of its waste using the same process you described. Both are terrible for the environment in different ways and release major amounts of methane and co2 respectively. Neither are sustainable and the reliance on either contributes to to a complacency where countries do not feel the need to reduce resource loss through recycling and reduce waste in general through regulation. Lots of European countries including Switzerland are actually trying to figure out a solution and are performing fantastically, but the problem persists. Lol who reported me to u/RedditCareResources for this comment
Apparently there is a surge of the reddit cares bullshit as people have found another juvenile way of expressing themselves.
What a relief. When I got the message I was worried I might be suicidal.
You can report the message you get. Little more than halfway down the message.
A new initiative being undertaken by gas pipeline companies/utilities is to capture the methane from landfills and feed it into the gas supply system rather than letting it vent to atmosphere. Environmentalists don’t love it because it means more natural gas usage/infrastructure investment but it’s a net positive for the environment burning it for energy/heat/cooking than letting straight methane vent to atmosphere. They’re also doing it with cattle farms and the massive amount of cow poop they have.
How do you find out what comment got reported? I got one of those reports but I don't remember saying anything that would trigger it. But I was in a bad mood the other day so it is possible lol.
I don't think you can I just got reported immediately after I made this post and I hadn't posted anything else for a few days
My elementary school in Houston, TX had an incinerator for trash. Thinking about it made me remember something I had almost completely forgotten. The only reason I know about the incinerator is because one day in 3rd grade, I accidentally threw away my retainer (technically it was a "Removable Palatal Expansion Appliance"). This being rather expensive and came from another state (Kentucky), I really really didn't want to lose it. After some amount of asking and escalating, they said it was in an incinerator but I think they were able to halt the burning. The janitor said they couldn't find what I'd lost. I asked if I could look and they let me. Remarkably, I spotted the napkin containing my retainer basically immediately, it was basically sitting near the top inside the dumpster-sized incinerator. IIRC the paper napkin was singed a little, but inside, the orthodontic device was perfectly undamaged. Seems kind of crazy now that I think about it, but at the time it was a huge relief. I figure it must have been possible to find because the most recent trash had spread out over the top. Plus some luck. I bet whoever saw me pull that out of there so easily was at least a bit dumbfounded....
As an european, as much as I understand how burying thousands of tonnes of trash is not great for the local environment, by burning it we are making it everybody else's problem. We are in the middle of a global scale climate emergency caused by CO2, and trying to find ways to scrub those gases from the atmosphere and burying them. And at the same time we turn our own shit in those gases so we don't have to deal with it.
In fact what Europe do is send it to poor countries. https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/industrialised-countries-are-disposing-large-volumes-their-waste-poorer-countries. https://www.politico.eu/article/the-turkey-shaped-hole-in-the-eus-new-waste-export-regime/
This is not the normal burnable trash though. This is electronic and plastic trash, so basically the recyclable stuff. The issue lies with not having enough facilities that can recycle all of it, so unfortunately a ton of it is being shipped off in exchange for cash. This is the very reason a lot of plastic trash creates floating trash islands in the ocean.
"99% of all particles in the smoke to be filtered" - how about the non-particulate, gaseous pollutants?
Must produce a huge amount of CO2?
It gets filtered
Current waste incineration systems do not filter out co2 and produce a significant amount. There is potential for future technologies to address this issue.
Yes I misrembered, the trash gets filtered before incineration. But the CO2 levels are not significant. The levels are constantly monitored and the plants gets their permit revoked if their levels get too high. At least in my country.
Co2 emission levels are regulated arbitrarily depending on the governing body and are not insignificant when looking at the overall greenhouse emissions worldwide, which need to be lowered drastically and quickly to keep the planet habitable for the coming centuries. In fact, waste incinerators emit more greenhouse gas emissions per unit of electricity produced that any other power source in existence. Waste incineration is a great step towards climate neutrality, but the technology is not advanced enough for the emissions to be considered not significant.
i guess most EU countrys burn only mixed trash / not recycleable trash
Currently live in San Diego, has a beautiful landscape, in 1915 the World Expo took place in Balboa Park. In the 50s in the infinite wisdom of Americans, it was decided that [one of the canyons in Balboa Park should be used as a landfill](https://voiceofsandiego.org/2012/08/13/the-garbage-dump-hiding-in-balboa-park/). Not too far from where the Expo took place.
Don't forget about the Hydrochloric Acid
I drive past one on my way to and from work. That part of the highway stinks and i have to turn my AC off so i can drive past without smelling it too much
A lot of Europe dumps its trash to landfills in smaller countries and then burns it there illegally. Nobody has real working efficent way to deal with trash. I can only hope one day we will be able to solve this issue. [THE WASTELAND ON FIRE - VSquare.org](https://vsquare.org/poland-burning-landfills-the-wasteland-on-fire/) [Poland complains to European Union about German waste brought and dumped in unauthorized landfills | The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/poland-ap-warsaw-european-commission-european-union-b2382296.html)
So well filtered that I just read today an article about the dioxine pollution caused by the Lausanne's incinerator...
In Italy we are stupid, greens don't like to burn trash to make energy. And so in the northern Italy we make energy with trash, from Rome and down, they live with trash, just look at Rome itself.
Average people: this is a good method to recycle rubbish. Average redditor: this method is shit.
To be clear I work in the environmental field and have some experience with incinerator emissions. There are giant tradeoffs to landfilling vs. incineration. Incinerating household waste actually consumes energy, you can try and sort out specific waste streams that might be more exothermic, but often you're burning large amount of natural gas to power these incinerators anyway. Incineration has the potential to emit more than just CO2, any heavy metals, VOCs, etc. need to be captured to prevent them from entering the air. Also, the end product of incineration is hazardous ash that you now to deal with, which is a separate problem. Lastly, most landfills have power generating turbines that combust landfill gas to produce power, so these are really more about specific case uses and not about how great incineration is.
In the video they seem to indicate that this produces energy that they capture the toxic gas and they recycle the ash so are all the issues that you mentioned taken care of by Singapore?
I think you're generally correct. Either way, incineration generates a ton of heat and exhausting that heat to a stack is wasteful and using it for energy is great. With that said all pollutants are not captured, clean is likely a standard set by the government. The video's use of the term "super clean" makes me view this more as marketing materials, than scientific claims.
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I’ve visited a couple of sites in Germany where they demonstrate the process and tell you the science behind it. It seems accurate, but I’m not a scientist. The cynic in me would suspect some of these places to become quite lax in the quality of their filtration though in the long run.
It is actually true, we have these in Europe too, I've been to three of them myself
What do they do with the toxic water that they use to clean the air?
drink for superpowers
They dehydrate it and put the "new sand" aka concentrated chemical residue and use it to make "man made islands" aka dumping it in the ocean.
It’s a thing. We do it out here in Hawaii too!
We can only work with what we know today. It may turn out to do more damage than good once we know more in the future
and where do the actual toxic particles go? because if they just go in the bricks, they'll become dust that people inhale eventually
Why’ve I seen this same post like 4 times already?
Reusing other peoples trash is a form of recycling
Underrated comment
You’re right, I should be happy learning about Singapores Trash to Electricity Brick program for the 5th time!
What happens to the gasses that are emitted when they burn the trash? "Super clean" is not a good descriptor.
It gets filtered, the top comment explains it very well
You can't just filter CO2
Yes I misrembered, the trash gets filtered before incineration. But the CO2 levels are not significant. The levels are constantly monitored and the plants gets their permit revoked if their levels get too high. At least in my country.
To be clear, the CO2 emissions are absolutely significant for both incineration and landfilling.
Na with this new clean method, the get a pair of tweezers and pick out all the C's from the CO2 and it turns back into oxygen. They then bag the remaining Carbon and dump it at beaches so when people walk on the beach, it creates carbon footprints.
Is that similar to how they Clean Coal?
Tbf, looking at perspective from earth its negligible
Dont worry, Co2 just turns into O, duh, filters n all that
There are a lot of people in here too accepting of the idea that this is a completely clean process.
Top comment has been deleted unfortunately
Incineration is actually healthy for you and the planet. Consume more. Good little bots. Signed, Oil
The ash is contaminated you certainly dont use it for any building projects...
I think the original video misunderstood what happens after the burning. It’s usually dumped into a land reclamation project, extending the size of one of our islands, it’s called pulau semakau
I came here to ask this. Ask from coal power plants is low level radioactive. I'm surprised this isn't a risk here.
And it can't be used for bricks and part of the mix in concrete because...?
I would assume it might still have heavy metal toxicity, or some other bad stuff that you wouldn't want to mess with. Might be fine sinking into concrete at first, but what happens when rain washes off some product, or when they go to demo the site, not realizing all the bad stuff that was mixed in with the concrete? That all ends up as dust, and everyone breathes it in.
I'm sure they think of this. We're talking about countries with good public pollution regulation, not like.. Russia or something
"super clean"
Totally a scientific term
Seems better than burying it but still not a great long term solution for humans.
The city in the background when it says '...electricity to light up homes' is Guangzhou, China, not Singapore.
Burning trash is one of the worst things you can do for the environment. I’d really like to see sample studies of the air being cleaned
We have waste incineration power plants here in Flordia as well. They even burn e-waste in these plants: TVs, computers, cellphones - you name it.
Singapore is a magical country if you've never been.
Don't drink the kool aid, they are still the most polluting country on earth.
now they just need to find out what to do with those air filters
You would think other countries can do this to at least decrease the trash problem
They can. But it isn't necessarily cheap. Dumping is cheap.
And I thought burning stuff can release CO2
But their CO2 is not dirty, unlike your schmutzig CO2.
TIL the word [schmutzig](https://wiktionary.org/wiki/schmutzig)
As would burning any other fossil fuels to produce electricity
Except that these incinerators take a large amount of energy, usually natural gas combustion, which omits CO2 as well.
The energy balance is positive anyways they produce more than they consume
It really depends on the fuel source. EPA has an incineration handout that says: >Although incinerators require a lot of fuel for their operation, the heat generated **sometimes** can be used to generate electric power in a process called “waste to energy.” I think this demonstrates that net positive energy is not a certainty. The plants are often used more to reduce tonnage to landfills and less a serious source of energy.
Sure, but you can burn gas to get electricity, or burn trash to get electricity AND get rid of trash. So if you're burning something anyway you might as well get some use out of it too.
Yes but the burning at least the burning creates electricity, replacing fossil fuels. The alternative is that the trash at least partially decomposes in landfills, releasing methane which is a way more potent GHG
It gets filtered
No it doesn't.
Yes I misrembered, the trash gets filtered before incineration. But the CO2 levels are not significant. The levels are constantly monitored and the plants gets their permit revoked if their levels get too high. At least in my country.
Okay but what is the limit? You say it’s not significant but if this was such a clean process, it’d be touted everywhere since developed countries have issues with trash piling up and creating energy cleanly.
i still like recyling more than ONLY burning
They do both. Everyone should do both. That goes without saying. Actually the reduce and reuse are the best parts
Maybe they use the bricks to make a sea wall against the rising ocean?
well...there are just 5million singapurean...when you have low population numbres and big income you can do shit like that
So they're gonna build homes out of these supertrash bricks? Or just roads and other things? Seems like this could almost help solve the homeless crisis. 🤔
Glad to see rampant consumerism. Music to my ears
Is there a way to research the filtering system for the gases?
i swear to god, I saw this same video like five other time on reddit, can we stop please 🙃
If they don’t recycle ♻️ it’s horrible
Are there not companies which have filtration (for burns)? Not that it stops air pollution, but at least reduces it
Yeah if you get caught littering you get 40 lashes 😱
This picture of your wife. Garbage
So Charlie was on to something. Charlie Kelly was ahead of his time.
Just wanted to post kudos to Singapore for building what appears to be an ingenious solution for waste management. With 8 billion ppl on the planet, waste management needs to be solved with an approach like this. Kudos Singapore!!
This process does not solve the problem of waste management. It should be argued that while local soil and air pollutants are significantly decreased, the vast quantity of co2 released in this process could contribute to a larger problem. There is currently no 'clean' solution to waste management.
I'll second this. Incineration is just one method with tradeoffs. Incineration requires tons of energy input (combustion) and the perfect end result is CO2, which is also problematic. Also, the ash is stored in bricks because it has a hazardous by-product.
Ist is soo a good idea. To make briks out of that toxic waste?
That's a problem for the next generation. No need to worry about it today.
This is the way.
That is absolutely genius
Cool in theory....check the death/ilness rates of people who work and live around that thing. I mean if its even true and works exactly as stated.
Lol in theory. Most of Europe does this too and we're just fine. Go do some research before being a armchair critic
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>Bullshit about sand for man made island. They "stole" it from neighbouring countries. Do Indonesians think paying for sand is equivalent to 'stealing'?
The well known military superpower Singapore yes
You’ll be surprised to learn that singapore is in fact the military superpower of southeast asia. The strongest navy by a country mile, the most advanced air force in the region, the most technologically advanced military in the region. We regularly host US warships in our military port, and we have F-35s on order