incineration

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Italy's "Land of Fires", also known as the "Triangle of Death", has served as a dump and illegal incineration site since the late 1980s.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

Diverting those tonnages from landfill or incineration can "improve our recycling rate as a nation quite significantly", he explained.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

Forest Service tested large-scale incineration of jungles by igniting barrels of fuel oil dropped from planes.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025

But the problem is that Kiteezi lacks the on-site recycling, sorting and incineration facilities that landfills are supposed to have.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2025

The metal rims of the wheels had sunk three inches into the melting asphalt, and the truck ticked and popped and smoked, still hot from its incineration.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz