Following Mr. Reardon's link to Scientific America, I was intrigued by a headline: "Japan's Green Garbage".
Well in Tokyo, Japan it turns out there is not that much space for them to dispose of their garbage in landfills. So they came up with the brilliant idea of burning all their plastic waste!
Okay, wait...I thought that burning garbage, especially plastic was a bad thing for the environment. Doesn't it release all types of pollutants into the air? How is that green?
The Japanese have found a way to burn plastics a filter the pollutants released so there is little impact on the environment. This allows them to better use the land available to them for things other than landfills. They even use the heat produced from burning the plastic to heat a community swimming pool.
See the video here: http://www.sciam.com/video.cfm?id=9526737001
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