Waste to energy plants are seen as green innovations for countries where landfills dominate, as they reduce methane and generate renewable energy. But will these incinerators really make our trash problems go up in flames?

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read More (Links):

Open burning: https://theconversation.com/health-cr...

Waste around the world: https://datatopics.worldbank.org/what...

Waste to energy as a solution (IEA): https://www.iea.org/articles/will-ene...

Waste to energy as a solution (Project Drawdown): https://drawdown.org/solutions/waste-...

Waste management in India (Pritpal Randhawa): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...

Environmental impacts of waste to energy: https://www.eunomia.co.uk/reports-too...

Waste to energy in Europe: https://e360.yale.edu/features/in-eur...

0:00 Intro
0:39 Why we need better waste management
2:00 Waste to energy
6:04 The Waste Hierarchy
6:51 A waste solution for the Global South?
6:47 Decentralization & Diversification
9:34 When incineration makes sense

Reporter: Amanda Coulson-Drasner
Video editor: Amanda Coulson-Drasner, Cem Springer
Supervising editor: Kiyo Dörrer