how is burning trash a renewable energy source? do tires and radioactive waste now grow on trees (or amongst the algae and switchgrass) ?

this makes no sense: spend a huge amount of energy to turn trash into fuel, then burn that? How can that reduce greenhouse emissions?

if renewable energy is “energy sources that are naturally replenishing but flow limited," it is hard to imagine that definition being applied to incinerating of refuse. it is alternative energy probably, but it is surely not renewable except in the most perverse of definitions.

Branding incineration of mixed solid waste as a clean and renewable source of energy is green washing and takes us backwards while we waste time and money on these brown projects instead of getting on with real investments in zero waste.

Kudos to Waste Management for investing in waste technologies. Why not convert trash to alternative energy -- unfortunately, waste will always be generated and I'd rather see it converted to green energy than fill up more landfills.