The term 'Energy from Waste' so beloved of incinerator-mongers was coined because the previous name 'Waste to Energy' was so often ridiculed in the USA as 'Waste of Energy'(a reference to the flawed accounting which makes it sound as if it makes a significant contribution to energy-generation when it doesn't. Recent studies suggest that it's actually cheaper to do nothing at all for several years than have an incinerator, even including paying landfill fines. How much better to create less waste in the first place.
Read Dr. Paul Connett on this subject at:
http://www.cank.org.uk/connett1.html#4.%20Incineration%20is%20a%20waste%20of
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