Challenges for the government of the future: fighting the new fake news on incinerators

Plants of this type must be evaluated in comparison with other solutions to manage waste, not with the tools to produce energy: if even 100 percent of production came from sun and wind, this does not mean that the waste would disappear.

There is something worse than fake news, and they are half-true news, but chained together in a specious way, to suggest non-existent cause-effect relationships. “Incinerators with makeup. Failures, toxic, of little use. Not properly supplied with waste, and therefore noxious. In Milan and in the Gallaratese, mortality and hospitalization peak. For the ‘experts’, it is suicide to produce energy in this way ”: this was the headline of Il Fatto Quotidiano last July 31st. Too bad that, in the article, there is no trace of toxic emissions, mortality peaks and hospitalizations. Not even “breakdowns”, for that matter. What will the titlist have smoked? “The clean incinerator does not exist: the dust remains under the carpet. There is no analysis on the reuse of residues: they end up in roads or quarries or become special waste not counted in landfills “.