incinerator

At least in the US, a modern incinerator produces cleaner exhaust gases than a power plant does.

This reminds me of the waste incinerator in Vienna, Austria [1].

That said, one application of the NIF is as the ultimate incinerator.

Condemning them for that reason is like throwing a pack of stray dogs into the incinerator for having fleas.

Well, I certainly hope pg isn't putting the non-needles into an incinerator like Jamie...

The reason for sorting is so you can recycle materials instead of putting it in a incinerator.

Imagine for a moment a world in which the money taken in taxes really does just get burned in a big incinerator.

What you don't see is what happens at the landfill or incinerator plant, and this is a bigger part of the job than collecting waste from domestic customers.

I worked at a supermarket in the late 70's as my high-school job, and we didn't compress + band the cardboard boxes -- we burned them in an incinerator out back.

The economists have an incinerator where everything left-wing goes.

The incinerator runs at 1000 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt glass, many metals, and certainly hot enough to completely burn up any organics.

Or you could use an incinerator, but then you have to weigh the significant economic and environmental costs against the almost trivial risk of having it in a dump somewhere.

If that level was found in incinerator ash, it would have to be handled very carefully and buried in a facility that had a concrete exterior separating it from its surroundings.

They employ people directly and indirectly: cashiers, truckers, stock clerks, people who work in canneries, farmers, chemists who formulate fertilizers, etc. It isn't as if a dollar spent at Safeway's ends up in an incinerator while a dollar spent at Apple mates with another dollar to make change.

My first thought was: some old guy or girl who worked at Bletchley in the war is probably about to get a knock on their door and a questioning under the official secrets act for their failure to properly dispose of classified documents, because they had the bright idea of using some of the loose papers they were supposed to take to the incinerator to make their hut a little more cosy during the winter of '44...