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China is running out of garbage. Now they want to burn their neighbors'.
(kdwalmsley.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2025
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With that line of reasoning there is nothing the Chinese state can do that would ever get your approval.
My comment was also not in reference to China burning garbage, but your blanket statement that burning garbage isn't eco.
I'm no fan of the CCP, but I prefer to at least engage with the point rather than automatically dismissing anything they do as bad.
Clearly, I skipped many common sense points here. They burn garbage to generate power, profit, and all those power plants, of course, are state-owned. Would you think other countries are just idiots that don’t know burning garbage to generate power is better than just burying them?
Big No. The toxic chemical compound produced by burning garbage is far more harmful than just burring them.
Yes, and garbage incineration to generate power or other forms of energy is a thing that happens in many countries
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Waste-incineration-capacities-by-EU-MS-Medarac-et-al-2014_fig37_304917594
The green dots represent electricity-generation plants, and the red dots represent plants that are used to generate both electricity and (presumably district) heating. Figure is from a paper from 2014, which I found after a quick Google.