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Pros And Cons Of Incineration In Ontario

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There are great benefits in reusing and recycling the garbage to reduce the size of waste landfills, however there are even better methods to treat the waste issues. The method of Incineration can be both positive and negative issue of waste management. This paper will further look into the use of incineration in Ontario for the disposal of waste. The article; emphasizes on the debate on the usage of incineration as a method of waste management to reduce overloaded waste. The article states that landfill space in Ontario is growing scarce and the amount of waste generated each year has grown to 500,000 tones (Criscione, 2011). A quarter of the waste is trucked to landfills, from which, half is recycled leaving the other half overloading …show more content…

Argues both for and against incineration, however suggesting that landfills bury the problem and incinerators burn the problem as new technologies of incinerator have improved and are different from past incinerators (Jordy, 2008). Virtually all incinerators proposed in Ontario have been limited to the older mass-burn technology with improved scrubbers geared at reducing emissions. York Region has a second waste management project in development: forming waste into pallets to be burned for energy by industrial users (Jordy, 2008). The study stated that Canadian municipalities should emphasize on right way of incineration which involves separation, pulling out all cleaner, enriched material (40 per cent of the waste) and using that to generate energy removing all toxins before combustion (Jordy, 2008). The study reflects on certain area of Ontario; York Region’s landfill which is consider to be exhausted 20 years ago and, since then, $120 million has been spent to try to find a new alternative (Jordy, 2008). Political and social complications scuttled the search and York is now seeking the province’s permission to pursue incineration (Jordy, 2008). The study states that, Ontario is in a landfill crisis; however there are still no right and wrong answer for incineration which impacts on a huge waste management practice (Jordy, 2008). The study suggests that Incineration may or may not turn out to be an appropriate technology for Ontario but determination should only be made once an overarching waste management policy for the province is put in place (Jordy, 2008). Whether or not landfilling or incineration are good treatment options, waste management must be led by better policy before it leads to a big crisis (Jordy,

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