Volcanoes to support waste?

[Merciedez]

I haven’t done much research, but what is the deal with not using volcanoes to dump waste. They’re the largest natural incinerators on earth. Aside from redefining waste management companies and possible air pollutants, it would provide a more natural direct waste control without using up land or building nuclear plants to support incinerators. Many of the active volcanoes on earth has far higher degrees of incineration in comparison to companies making nuclear incinerators…Some active volcanoes even have larger land mass then any landfills. Air pollutants and possible land quakes near volcanoes could cause some problems, but I’m not so sure a volcano will reject the waste when it’s just burning it. If appropriately researched to provide very little pollutant depending on level of incineration per volcano I think we can manage volcanoes to assist in human waste. This doesn’t mean being able to make more waste, but to eliminate land to be used a landfills and reduce current air pollutants for cities. Neighboring cities near volcanoes should be removed (& become millionaires for their use of their volcano) to provide appropriate evacuation time should an eruption/earthquake occurs.

What is the reason why we don’t use them to assist in the same function as any waste management company?

 

[KleanKut]

Right, i mean it looks good on paper, i have no knowlage of the subject at hand however i do have a few observations. You would have to find open active volcanos. Meaning you would have to move all the waste to that area (since they are far and inbetween). Then you would have to transport it up the volcanic mountian what might be its own huge problem with in its self. So who knows, it might cost less to do it thta way, but it also sounds like it could cost a shit load more.

 

[Merciedez]

yeah cost is always going to be there, but the over end goal is removing the waste from cities and towns and completely or possibly removing waste without letting it decay in our atmosphere. I mean the making of earth has a large percentage of magma, which we can also dig under ground to incinerate the waste.

 

[WHITE DEVIL]

They aren't hot enough to completely evaporate all the waste and pollutants. In fact I think the waste would create a giant, noxious cloud that then would get expelled into the atmosphere. Not to mention the increased possibility of eruption when they become dammed up with trash.

If burning things was simply the best, cheapest, and smartest way to get rid of trash, there would be a hotter, cleaner, even more efficient method than volcanoes in use. unfortunately, however, pollutants and incineration byproducts could possibly create even more of a problem than our current trash piles.