To try to reduce pollution why dont we just... ?

Question

why dont we just like burn the garbage in a controlled container thingyy, adn then instead of outside we must use air filters to make the pollution go away? and also at the same time do this to landfills??

Answer 1

We do, in a few places wher landfills are very expensive.

They're called "municipal waste incinerators".

But they cost a lot of money, and people try to stop them from being built, because they don't want to live near them.

Answer 2

why don't we just get rid of the politicians? that would not only save us on the big cars they drive and big houses they heat, but there'd be a damnsite less hot air going into the environment!

Answer 3

yeah, why don't we

Answer 4

1. No filters are 100 % efficient.

2. Filters only catch particulate matter. Gases would pass right through it (CO2, CO, NOx, uncombusted VOC).

3. That would be a MASSIVE operation to burn all the trash that goes into landfills.

4. Not all materials burn very well.

5. You would have to burn a huge amount of supplemental fuel (natural gas, oil, etc).

6. The products of combustion of some materials can be quite toxic.

7. What do you do with all the c**p you catch in the filters? Put it in a landfill?

The pollution doesn't just go away. The matter has to go somewhere. Either into the atmosphere as products of combustion or as solid ash.

Answer 5

If we would quit voting in idiot presidents like Bush that actually let the big companies pollute even more than they used to with his policies that he changed it would help a lot.

Answer 6

burning rubish gives f alot of carbon dioxide which is a big contributer of global warming,the goverment can't aford any where near enoghth air fillters(they're very expensive)and its cheaper to let the land waste rot then cleen it all up.*