Impacts of Sending Plastics to Waste-to-Energy Plants | 2013 Global Dialogue on Waste
Channel: be Waste Wise
Date: 2013-09-26

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Q: Do discarded plastics really add more carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere when they're used in waste to energy compared to when they slowly decompose in landfills?

Moderator: Dr. Scott Kaufman (Co-Founder of PeerAspect LLC)
Panelists: Dr. Franz Neubacher (President of UV & P Environmental, Austria), Shawn Lawrence Otto (Author of Fool Me Twice and Co-Founder of ScienceDebates.org), and Dr. Eileen Berenyi (President of Governmental Advisory Associates). 

Compatibility between Recycling and Waste-to-Energy was discussed as part of the 2013 Global Dialogue on Waste, organized by "be Waste Wise" (www.wastewise.be).

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