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Unfortunately (and unbelievably!), Massachusetts still burns trash.

> There are more than 100 municipal waste combustion facilities in operation across the United States. Five of these are located in Massachusetts.

https://www.mass.gov/guides/municipal-waste-combustors

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What's wrong with burning trash? It means there's much less material to send to landfills, plus it's one of the most economical ways to recycle metal from household waste streams.

'Old school' trash burning can produce quite nasty emissions. Not much of an issue with modern plants that burn at higher temperature and have some amount of flue gas filtering etc. Certainly beats landfilling and producing that same power by burning fossil fuels.

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