"Well, I might as well fart!"

I am in the midst of researching the use of incineration as a method of waste management. I am bombarded by journal articles promoting the safety of using modernized technologies for the high temperature combustion of municipal solid waste and then recovering energy costs by using the exhaust to drive steam powered turbines for power generation (Lafarge tyre burning, anyone? - ps whoever labeled tyre fires as a source of sustainable energy deserves a metal for getting away with it). Apparently, the claim is that by combustion at incredibly high temperatures (above 1400 C)dioxins, furans, PAH's, PCB's, toxic metals, etc. are destroyed and then contained by state of the art air pollution control methods before being released as exhaust. The contained ash is then treated until it is deemed non hazardous which at that time is often used as an aggregate in road construction (leaching+runoff=?)or is better yet used as a daily cover over landfill waste. Most authorities in chemistry who have no affiliation with the operators themselves will contest that you cannot safely dispose of such chemicals as a mass because the process is too sensitive and when you create a solution to one problem you also create an interference with another. For instance, when dioxin levels were said to be destroyed at said higher temperatures, this only caused the formation of nitric oxides from N and O found in air. When in contact with direct sunlight, nitric oxide forms nitrogen dioxide which is the source for acid rain and smog. Modifying chemicals is a tricky business much like putting out a grease fire with water. While intentions are good, it may blow up in your face. And who approved the disposal of such waste in municipal landfill sites? Even if the ash is given a thumbs up for stabilization, mixing it with unsorted waste subjects it to god knows what. Plastics, solvents used in many household chemicals (many that you use in washing like your fancy shampoo), and spontaneous fire outbreaks could cause unpredicted chemical reactions with such harmful ash contents. I think that the addition of ash to landfill waste can be summed up to observing a shit load of unthinkable filth and then just adding more wretched dirtiness. Kind of like sitting in cold, dirty bath water and deciding, "Well, I might as well fart".