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Waste-to-energy idea renews heated debate
Backers like diverting garbage from landfills; critics see health threat
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine – America remains awash in refuse as new cases of the coronavirus decline – and that has reignited a debate about the sustainability of burning more trash to create energy.
Waste-to-energy plants, which produce most of their power by incinerating trash, make up only about half a percent of the electricity generation in the U.S. But the plants have long aroused considerable opposition from environmentalists and local residents who decry the facilities as polluters, eyesores and generators of foul odor. ....

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Pandemic garbage boom ignites debate on waste-to-energy


Pandemic garbage boom ignites debate on waste-to-energy
By PATRICK WHITTLE, Associated Press
Published: July 9, 2021, 8:47pm
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A worker unloads a garbage truck June 22 at ecomaine in Portland, Maine. Waste-to-energy converters like ecomaine are seeing an uptick in the amount of trash they collect to produce power. (patrick whitTLe/Associated Press)
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PORTLAND, Maine America remains awash in refuse as new cases of the coronavirus decline and that has reignited a debate about the sustainability of burning more trash to create energy.
Waste-to-energy plants, which produce most of their power by incinerating trash, make up only about half a percent of the electricity generation in the U.S. But the plants have long aroused considerable opposition from environmentalists and local residents who decry the facilities as polluters, eyesores and generators of foul odor. ....

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