Steam solution

I read with dismay that Casey Council is looking for a new landfill site; they must have short memories.
I have a solution which, if taken seriously, will resolve our problems with waste for ever more.
I gave my solution to Ted Baillieu who took no notice, it was probably too hard.
Ingolstadt in Bavaria incinerate their waste and have done so for more than 50 years, to my knowledge.
The steam generated is used to heat the town. If they can do it, why can’t we?
We pick a site with road and rail access away from populated areas.
We build an incinerator large enough to incinerate all of Australia’s rubbish which comes in by train.
The waste is incinerated using gas from all the present tips, supplemented by natural gas.
The emissions are filtered, the by product (ash) is sold as fertiliser as are any metals.
The steam produced is used to drive electricity making turbines, which is sold to the grid.
The workforce are prisoners, living in a specially built prison nearby, who are given the chance to work and pay for their keep, keeping some of their pay and also accruing superannuation.
They are given only one chance, mess up and they return to normal prison life, work and on being released, they have money, superannuation and work experience.
It would be funded by the private sector and could, by selling electricity, be mostly self funded.
As I see it, we cannot go on filling holes in the ground with toxic waste, ruining the groundwater and giving off gas.
Sometime we will have to find a bigger solution.
Maurice Quinn,
Cranbourne East.