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Waste to Energy Plant in Horsholm, Denmark

When it comes to green energy and green living, thank God for non-American countries.  Seriously.  China is winning the race for solar energy, while Europe, it seems, is pulling ahead on converting waste to energy.  Check out the NY Times article here.   

I’ve always been told that burning trash is terrible for the environment and that there is no way to scrub the airborn waste that such plants create.  Every time I throw something away, I’ve thought that it could only go to one of two places–a recycling plant or a landfill.  And since landfill garbage just sits there for years and years, I assumed that eventually everything would go to a landfill.  If you’ve ever been near Fresh Kills, it really begins to stink when the wind blows the wrong way.  Pretty bleak.