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notact 81 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none...

TIL incineration can involve power generation. I am familiar with the term, but had assumed incineration was basically endothermic and wasteful.

lucb1e 79 days ago [–]

Yeah I'm surprised as well! A lot of items would burn but also so many, I'd think, wouldn't. Apparently it works out

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