Another usage of garbage is burning it as fuel for vehicles. A city near north of London has a garbage truck entirely powered by garbage, if that's ironic enough for you. Waste is burned at a recycling centre at 10 megawatts and a modified lithium-ion battery pack that can reach 50 miles per hour. A fully charged truck can reach up to 100 miles or go for six to eight hours. This reduces the amount of garbage left sitting idle in landfills or to be dumped into the ocean. But this alternative is less environmentally friendly for the whole planet because incinerating things release heat and chemicals into the air.In my opinion, this is not a very reasonable solution because burning waste releases pollutants into the air and the ozone layer will be destroyed much more quickly. Also, the overall temperature of the world would rise and usable energy would decrease due to the increase in entropy.
The formula for entropy for constant temperature could be used to generally state that entropy would increase because of the increase in heat in the world is directly proportional to it. Energy can never be destroyed but if it cannot be used, it is almost as if it were "useless".http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/garbage-powered-garbage-truck-uk.php?daylife=1&dcitc=daylife-article
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