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CharacterOtherwise77 t1_j2z22eb wrote

5% of garbage being burned into the atmosphere is pretty awful, that's about 2.5 million tons of unvetted combustion going into the air annually. This should not be legal.

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SilverNicktail t1_j2zjpye wrote

Not 5% of garbage, 5% of electricity generation categorised as renewable. Did you not read the reasoning I posted as to why it's done? Let's say you get your way and that's made illegal - cool, now it rots, creates methane and emits *more*.

It's different to bringing methane out of the ground and burning that - this is methane that is naturally occurring at the surface and would be released anyway.

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