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This has forced the incinerator industry into a public-relations make-over where the word ‘incinerator’ is rarely mentioned and has been replaced by terms such as ‘gasification, pyrolysis, plasma arc and waste to energy (WtE)’.

This is not a sustainable waste management plan for Australia in the 21st century. Australia can do better by implementing sustainable zero waste policies instead.

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This new interactive map shows the current 17 waste incinerator projects operating already and including those planned for Australia. These facilities combined will burn 3,909,500 million tonnes of waste every year. This will contribute more than 4 million tonnes of green house gases into the atmosphere every year, representing a major climate pollution threat for Australia.

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While tighter air quality standards have forced waste incinerators to increase pollution controls (especially for dioxins) they continue to be responsible for discharges of a large range of atmospheric pollutants and dioxin release incidents. The improvements to air emissions have also led to a much higher level of contamination of incinerator residues such as ash which must still be sent to landfill.

Incinerator proponents have attempted to make a distinction between ‘old’ incinerators and ‘new’ technologies. This is part of promoting the argument that environmentalists and communities are objecting to the old polluting technology which has now been replaced by ‘new clean’ technology. However, all of the ‘new’ technologies are basic incineration variants that have been subject to incremental changes over time and most continue to suffer from a poor environmental track record.

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These claims are critical to the establishment of the incinerator industry in Australia because of the government subsidies and credits available to renewable energy generators.

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Because a percentage of the municipal waste they will burn is organic in origin or biogenic they claim this constitutes renewable energy and have been aggressively lobbying state and federal government to accept this logic. However while the organic wastes may come from renewable sources the energy created through the incineration process is comparatively more climate polluting than other energy sources such as oil, gas and coal.

These technologies are all waste incinerator technologies according to the European Union and the US Environmental Protection Authority. The configuration of each technology varies but they are all designed around single stage or dual stage burning of waste. They all produce a similar profile of pollutants (although the concentrations may vary) and all have similar negative effects on communities and alternative resource recovery practices such as recycling and composting.