What are the disadvantages of garbage incineration plant?

Question

In my country, government has a plan to build it but some people say "no". Please give some reasons, and if available some websites regarding it.

Answer 1

The reason that almost every resident has for not building a garbage recycling plant is fear that it is an eyesore, will smell bad, and will lower property values.

Most people appreciate and support recycling activities. However, very few people that buy land are willing to have that recycling plant next door to their land. We call this the "Not-In-My-Backyard" phenomenom.

The largest disadvantage of a garbage incineration plant is cost; in general they are used when the cost to store garbage in a landfill exceeds the cost to build an incineration plant. However, people will always fight against where they are going to put an incineration plant because they think that incineration plants tend to smell bad and they aren't pretty. It's not that they don't want the incineration plant, it's that they don't want the incineration plant next to them.

Answer 2

Incineratino plants are very expensive to build and to run. They require regular maintenance which in many cases requires a complete shutdown of the process. Environmental regulations are (rightly) becoming more and more strict, making the process of incineration more expensive, as companies have to invest in more pollution abatement equipment, more frequent monitoring of stack gas emissions and waste water emmissions, and in more expensive continuous emission monitoring analysers. The process itself is far superior to landfill, as it reduces dramatically the volume of waste, and also renders any toxic or haxardous materials inert (PCB's etc) Carcinogenic compounds such as PCDD and PCDF's (dioxins and furans) can be formed under certain conditions, but good design, and regular monitoring can really reduce this. A good example of a garbage incinerator is the plant in Amsterdam, Holland.

Answer 3

there's one here in spokane and it's a money pit that will never turn a profit, the best way to get rid of trash is to build a membrane basically an area surounded by clay to protect underground water supplies then dirt, garbage, piping, then more garbage, etc over and over untill it's a mountain that would even help stop tornado's if they were plenty and big enough then they could get electricity out of the burning methane gas that seeps out, but insinerators sound cool to government people and they dont care that instead of barrying stuff lets breath it, its just a bad idea i think all the way around