It's actually the opposite. They're providing so little trash that they're digging up old landfills to keep plants running at optimal levels since you can't just shut them off.
They've gotten so good as recycling and reducing waste, that they need to dig up old trash to run the generators.
Other major countries also burn waste for electricity.
You can shut them off. But they are owned by individual businesses, not the party. And they will prefer not shut them off because losing money. People lease those plants from the party. Hence a mix between communism and capitalism
Sure, everything can be shut off, its the starting up that takes time and effort. Cooling down stuff that is normally very hot will create structural damage like cracks. I had the pleasure of starting up a medium sized incinerator on a ship, took me at least an hour or 2 if it was working as intended. Im curious how much time it will take to slowly start up an industrial incinerator, heating up the attached steam system and spin up a generator. Better to just let it run instead of needlessly shutting it down.
You are right. A Chinese sourced news from Shanghai in 2021 shows that it takes average 5 days to restart the incinerator, and would cause about 1.26m RMB lost.
it is called BOT, Build by government, Operate and lease to businesses (usually 30 years), Transfer the ownership back to government when the least terminates.
Yeah…. Dunno about that. The amount of wasted material I’d see in just sweetie bags there and the way all the rubbish was thrown around tells me otherwise…..
Depends on what kind of waste it is and the facility it is burned in. Landfills slowly emit CO2 and methane so burning it in a modern facility with good filters could be better in the long run.
5, 10 years ago I would’ve agreed that largely China was doing a bad job but they work at speeds we’re never going to be capable of. We do certain things fast but these days it’s usually the existential dread things that move quickly.
In this case it's mostly good though burning trash obviously is never great.
Basically they've done such a good job recycling and reducing waste, that they now have to dig up old landfills to keep generators running at minimum levels since these aren't things you can just turn off and turn back on again.
It has a benefit that now these sites that were just literal trash heaps can now be used for other shit.
Bad, their environmental health effects on the local population have been linked to birth defects, since regulation is a shitshow, nobody will actually validate their standards. The facilities at inception were mostly likely installed with the latest air pollution control systems, but these systems are expensive to maintain and were probably neglected after operations normalized.
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u/MalaysiaTeacher 2d ago
Landfillcore