What happens to Waste?

I live in Newham, so everything I put in my wheelie bin is collected once a week, taken to a plant at Jenkins Lane where it’s crushed into solid bales which are then put onto the back of a lorry, driven to Essex and dumped in a hole in the ground. This is called “Landfill”.

In Lewisham where I work however, waste is taken to this place with a big chimney and burned – “Incineration”.

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I can see smoke or steam emissions from the window occasionally, and I sometimes wonder which is the least bad solution.