For the next 4 days, we will be releasing fact sheets detailing the problems with "waste-to-energy" incinerators around the world. First up is Attero Moerdijk Facility from the Netherlands, an expensive waste trap! This facility tied the municipality into a contract requiring 510,000 MT of waste annually. But when the city's improved waste separation reduced material sent to the incinerator, it had to pay the company $17 million USD-- a penalty for not being wasteful enough! This example shows how incinerator contracts can undermine municipal efforts to reduce waste. ---- Check out this and more case studies in our new publication, The Burn Book: Incinerators that Threaten the Climate, Public Health, and Our Finances. 🔗no-burn.org/burnbook-stop-in… #NoBurn Global Week of Action @ZeroWasteNed

⚠️Here are *just* five reasons why waste burning is not a climate solution. From releasing greenhouse gases and toxic pollutants to burning valuable resources, wasting public funds, and threatening communities, so-called “waste-to-energy” comes at a high cost to people and the planet. Ahead of the Global Week of Action to Stop Incineration (October 13–16) tomorrow, read our latest publication, Waste-burning 101: What You Need to Know About So-called Waste-to-Energy, to learn more about the impacts of waste burning and why zero waste is the solution we need. (cont. in replies) #NoBurn

Our new publication, The Burn Book: Incinerators that Threaten the Climate, Public Health, and Our Finances, exposes the facts behind the harms of waste burning. ⚠︎ These incinerators alone produce at least 1.7 million tons of toxic ash per year– or the weight of 230 Eiffel Towers. 🚨The 11 plants with GHG emissions data release a cumulative 5.5 million metric tons of CO2e per year, same as 1.3 million passenger cars. 💸The twenty incinerators profiled have racked up nearly $7 billion of investments to date-- a portion directly from taxpayers. Read: no-burn.org/burnbook-stop-in… #NoBurn #GoForZeroWaste #climatejustice Global Week of Action to Stop Incineration