| With landfill being the most common and the oldest | | | | scarcity of lands. |
| method for waste disposal management, incineration | | | | However, it must also be remembered that |
| is the second largest method for waste disposal | | | | combustion of wastes can have negative effects on |
| management in most of the countries around the | | | | health. Health risk due to environmental pollution gets |
| world. Incineration that involves combustion of | | | | augmented and eventually is becoming a major |
| organic substances and wastes involves waste | | | | concern and discourse all over. Ash, flue gas and |
| disposal that includes households, hazardous and even | | | | other emissions of incineration can have perilous |
| medical wastes. | | | | effects on mankind and nature. Through incineration, |
| Because of combustion, incineration is also called | | | | the waste gets reduced and converted to ash which |
| 'thermal treatment'. Through incineration waste | | | | contains some of the most poisonous substances |
| disposal management, the wastes get converted into | | | | such as dioxins and heavy metals. It is very difficult |
| bottom ash, flue gas, particulates and heat which | | | | to dispose these toxins off. |
| again can be utilized to generate electric power. Thus | | | | When the waste is burnt, enormous toxins are |
| in modern days, incinerators prevent energy from | | | | released which mingle with the atmosphere. The |
| being wasted. | | | | combination of all these poisonous emissions can be |
| Incineration has certain benefits. Waste disposal | | | | fatal. Thus nature and her resources get adversely |
| management through incineration is beneficial when it | | | | affected and become vulnerable to unending risks. |
| comes to treating wastes like clinical and hazardous | | | | The cost that we pay for incineration is very high, |
| ones. Here, the harmful toxins and pathogens get | | | | considering the impact on environment and mankind. |
| burnt in high temperature and get completely | | | | Health experts are raising alarms and asking for |
| destroyed. Such method of waste disposal | | | | alternate ways to treat wastes which would not |
| management is particularly popular in countries facing | | | | affect us so dangerously! |