The incinerator would produce electricity or heat from the rubbish it burns. The NLWA calls the incinerator an ‘energy-from-waste’ or ‘energy recovery’ plant, and even calls the site Edmonton EcoPark.However, incineration is a very inefficient way to create energy. It captures only a small amount of the calorific value of the materials it burns. This makes it hugely carbon intensive, even more so than burning traditional fossil fuels. Recycling plastic waste is actually a better way to ‘recover’ energy, as the energy saved by not needing to extract fossil fuels and create new plastics is more than that which can be gained from burning it.