It is not like burning coal where it is dug out of the ground to burn (and a good fuel it is when burnt in a clean coal power plant). This is rubbish that you are stopping from going in to landfill which has all kinds of gassing problems of its own…. and you are getting power from it! (As long as the power station incinerator exhaust is well enough filtered, and I suspect that is the area journo’s should be investigating, and praising where praise is due!)
It is also stopping faux-recycled plastic from polluting the shores of africa etc., to where a lot of the supposed recycling is shipped to. It is absolutely win win… what these bbc faux-green-hystericals, disposable coffee cup, disposable nappy, disposable vape, disposable packing etc. types should be doing is tackling the other end… stop producing so much landfill waste.
However the bit in the report about the contracts councils have taken out with the usual types where if councils do not deliver enough waste they have to pay a penalty is somewhat shooting limiting waste in the foot, but this is the paradox of the corporat-king they always want more, they want you to buy more of whatever the fuck it is i.e. disposable vape-pens, because they personally want to acquire more wealth and luxury. (well and a legal obligation in america I think to do everything to maximise shareholders returns)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3wxgje5pwo
This is all fundamentally brought to you by the same people that produce a national lottery radio advertisement claiming a national lottery ticket is “the best gift ever” WHAT THE FUCK???? a 99.999%+ losing piece of paper is a good gift? on planet marketing eh! where we all live! Oh it’s the thrill of maybe eh! (bbc/itv and marketing types all same sort of restaurant and club elite set)
Had to laugh at an old comedy monologue! Siadwell! (had a radio series on radio Wales) One Christmas he got an “Action Man – Deserter” (empty box) spent all week looking for him, never found him. LOL