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As garbage piles up, we dump trash on third world countries, in the ocean, and bury valuable resources.
Instead, we should be recycling it and saving on our electric bills.
Power to the People
The following video describes the process. This video suggests using trees or coal, but it's municipal waste that we should be using as feed stock not coal or trees.
"They can cost as much as $2,000,000 per acre to construct." Money that is paid by the taxpayer. Why not invest that money into something that can reduce waste by recycling it for reuse while generating electricity?
Instead of dumping it into our oceans we could recycle it with Plasma Gasification. Dumping it into our oceans is a waste of waste, destroys our environment, and kills innocent wild life. Not to mention we are not taking advantage of technology that could cut down on our electric bills.
Tax Payers and Home Owners pay for waste disposal. If the waste was being delivered to a public recycling center, ie plasma gasification plant owned by the tax payers who's money is used to create loans to build such things, then garbage men wouldn't have to worry about not being paid and what happened in California and NYC would not occur. Not only would we want our garbage picked up so it's not an eyesore but we would also want to make sure that we had a steady source of electricity, and our manufacturing plants would want to make sure they were getting the recycled materials from the plant.
Tax payers already pay for the trash to be picked up in most places, either directly to the waste companies or indirectly in the form of taxes. Waste disposal is an integral part of our infrastructure and if not picked up can cause complications for business owners like it did in NYC as can be seen in the above video and may even lead to death as this video states happened in one instance.
Make the Plasma Gasification plant publicly owned. Pass the savings on electricity and waste disposal to the tax payers in the costs of their electric bills.
