The reason I ask is because in the mid 1970s my town got on the cogeneration bandwagon, the old trash-to-cash idea of using a trash incinerator to generate power for the municipal grid (streetlight and such). One of the justifications for the plant was the extension of landfill lifetime. Smaller volume of disposable material, you see (ashes vs. unburned trash). So they built the plant and it ran for a few years. Ironically (but so in character), the very environmental wacko groups who were pushing the cogneration bandwagon a few years prior then turned around and stabbed the county waste authority in the back and got the plant shutdown on so-called environmental grounds. This time it was "too much" dioxin being emitted. So the empty plant sits there unused, with taxpayers stuck paying off the bonds for the next 20 years or so. And the landfill is back to filling up to capacity. So much for that wacko idea. Funny thing though, the press never takes those wacko groups to taks. They are given a pass because "their motives are pure". I say bravo sierra to that. Their motives are nothing but Draconian and Luddite.
AMEN! Bro!!!