Alexander, Catherine (2016) 'When waste disappears, or more waste please!', RCC perspectives: transformations in environment and society., 1 . pp. 31-39.
Abstract
Energy-from-waste plants in places like Britain were designed help reduce waste and carbon emissions, but they have had unintended side-effects. As Alexander’s essay shows, turning waste into energy does not liberate us from waste itself. On the contrary, the very energy plants that have made waste “disappear” by recasting it as a resource have, paradoxically, led to an increase of waste: in order to operate a new generation of large energy plants, demand for waste has risen and a tendency to ship waste to fewer and ever larger plants has set in.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Download PDF (363Kb) |
| Status: | Not peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7391 |
| Publisher statement: | RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society is an open-access publication. It is available online at www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives. Articles may be downloaded, copied, and redistributed free of charge and the text may be reprinted, provided that the author and source are attributed. Please include this cover sheet when redistributing the article. © Copyright of the text is held by the Rachel Carson Center. Image copyright is retained by the individual artists; their permission may be required in case of reproduction. |
| Date accepted: | 03 April 2016 |
| Date deposited: | 05 September 2018 |
| Date of first online publication: | 03 April 2016 |
| Date first made open access: | 28 February 2023 |
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