Does an incinerator have an effect on the environment?

Near where I live there is a landfill site and it is nearly full so they are thinking about starting up a waste management scheme which will include an incinerator. Loads of people are against but mainly because they think it will cause environmental problems. But will it??Does an incinerator have an effect on the environment?Yes, incinerators can have pretty major environmental impacts, depending on what they're burning. You have to get special air permits to use them. The major concern from incinerators is air pollution, but you also have to be careful what you do with the ash after you've burned the stuff, because it can contain contaminants too.



Basically incinerators are pretty nasty for the environment. People have a very good reason to be against their use.Does an incinerator have an effect on the environment?
What?

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Does an incinerator have an effect on the environment?Landfills are worst for the air and ground.



Algae - like a breath mint for smokestacks



http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/鈥?/a>

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Does an incinerator have an effect on the environment?
You DID NOT learn anything from this answer. Even if it were true, it just parroted what the SELF-PROCLAIMED environmentalist have been saying for DECADES.

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Does an incinerator have an effect on the environment?One major aspect of the incineration technique is that the filters which are supposed to clean the smoke and hold back most of the poisonous substances can't be cleaned, they have to be burried in landfills. In 90% of the incinerators, those filters are highly radioactive and poisonous.

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Read the website %26lt;%26gt;http://www.answers.com/topic/i鈥?/a> on incinerators. That should give a very good objective description with the pros and cons.

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Does an incinerator have an effect on the environment?
For better and worse it will have an impact. Landfill space has run out in Europe and landfill causes its own environmental problems.



You get energy from waste incineration, but you also get toxic ash and emissions. You can catch the emissions and collect the ash, but that ends up in landfill.



If you look at the necessity then unfortunately you can't come up with a better option, but you have to accept it is a long way short of perfect.



What you have is NIMBY, (not in my back yard), versus the cheapest community scheme available.



I wouldn't want an incinerator near where I live, it's an obvious health hazard, but I accept it is going to be built somewhere.



It definitely has the potential to cause serious environmental problems, but on paper these problems will have been addressed in consultation. It's matter of trusting the operator to deliver the project to spec and as I value the welfare of my family and friends I would be in the NIMBY camp.
Yes, I know a couple of campaigners against a local incinerator, link below, GL.



http://www.mountfield.net/IncinerationTh鈥?/a>Does an incinerator have an effect on the environment?
Yes, dioxins in the air from that incineration is carcinogenic (causes cancer). It will be in the air, in the rain, in the soil and in you! Fight, don't take this laying down. Look up GAIA. http://www.no-burn.org/article.php?list=鈥?/a>
incinerators are disliked because they generally give off foul smelling fumes and if you live down wind of one it could not only be unpleasant

but could even reduce the value of your home but you have to weigh it up against continuous landfill
To some extent yes it will.
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/waste/iss鈥?/a>
not as much as a land fill

they should use the heat generated to heat local houses


dur course it will churn out fumes mmm