Rubbish-Burning Experiment Captures Destructive Greenhouse Gases

The firey blazes at Oslo, Norway’s main Klemetsrud incinerator burn a huge amount of residential and commercial waste each day—stuff that can’t be recycled. The energy that is generated is used for the heating and electricity of Oslo’s buildings, said Johnny Stuen, the Technical Director for the incinerator. Capturing greenhouse gases But the waste-to-energy plant is also Norway’s largest source of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, about 6 percent each year. And those gases harm...

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