- If landfills aren't available, incineration
- garbage is loaded onto a conveyor belt leading to an incinerator
- Waste is burned in the primary furnace
- can burn up to 1000 degrees centigrade
- The vapors and ash from the primary furnace enter the secondary furnace
- The secondary furnace burns the ash
- vapors up to 1300 degrees centigrade
- The ash is collected and sent to a landfill
- the vapors the gases are sent to scrubbers
- removes oxides and heavy metals
- Dirty water is removed and sent to a wastewater treatment facility
- The scrubbed gas is released as clean air and carbon dioxide