Australia stands to benefit from burning waste to produce electricity and heat for homes, but there are potential pitfalls and drawbacks too.
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Two billion people worldwide lack a dedicated system of waste collection and management.
Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects help design them.
Waste-to-energy incineration has been raised as a solution to the global plastic waste problem, but the technology adds pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and encourages more waste production.
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Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London
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Associate Professor, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Lecturer in Art History, UMass Amherst
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Lecturer in Resource Efficiency Systems, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds; Imperial College London
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney
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Associate Dean (Research), University of Sydney
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