Is incineration the way forward?
A version of this article first appeared in The Hindu on 25/11/2024
A recent investigative report by the [1] New York Times on Delhi’s Waste-To-Energy (WTE) incinerators, analysed 150 air and soil samples gathered over a five-year period (from 2019 to 2023). The lead and arsenic laced smoke, and ash that contained as many as eight times, permissible levels of heavy metals such as cadmium has been a damning indictment of the capital’s WTE scene.
