after having seen the penn and teller link that says recycling is garbage it seems to me that incinerating a significant amount of domestic waste is more effective than dumping it in landfill

perhaps residential waste collection of the future would be limited to aluminium cans, steel cans, paper and nothing else. plastic bags, PET bottles just go into waste along with nappies and regular junk and incinerated?

steel and aluminium are easily recycled, paper would just be put through a basic processing and sold to china (apparently they are more than happy to take paper so they can use it again – instead of cutting down their own trees)

the incineration plant would be used to generate power that would be supplied to the grid

one thought I have had recently is to stop all sewage being pumped into the ocean , at Bondi for example raw sewage is pumped straight into the ocean after its been chopped up and filtered.

the benefit of stopping all sewage from cities from entering the oceans is it stops lots of bacteria/ virus from humans entering the ocean eg HIV, herpes and other STDs, human hormones.

as a result the oceans around cities become much cleaner

so what to do with the sewage? burn it

the sewage would be dried (perhaps using the sun) and then simply burnt – you might have a dedicated incinerator OR just use the same incinerator you use for domestic waste

the waste water would be much cleaner (if using evaporation), that waste water could then be collected (no need to filter it because its evaporated water) , treated with UV, then treated with ozone. the water is then returned to a local water reservoir ?

Use of heat

The heat produced by an incinerator can be used to generate steam which may then be used to drive a turbine in order to produce electricity. The typical amount of net energy that can be produced per tonne municipal waste is about 2/3 MWh of electricity and 2 MWh of district heating. Thus, incinerating about 600 metric tons (660 short tons) per day of waste will produce about 400 MWh of electrical energy per day (17 MW of electrical power continuously for 24 hours) and 1200 MWh of district heating energy each day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration

The temperatures needed to break down dioxin are typically not reached when burning plastics outdoors in a burn barrel or garbage pit, causing high dioxin emissions as mentioned above. While plastic does usually burn in an open-air fire, the dioxins remain after combustion and either float off into the atmosphere, or may remain in the ash where it can be leached down into groundwater when rain falls on the ash pile. Fortunately, dioxin and furan compounds bond very strongly to solid surfaces and are not dissolved by water, so leaching processes are limited to the first few milimeters below the ash pile. The gas-phase dioxins can be substantially destroyed using catalysts, some of which can be present as part of the fabric filter bag structure.

Modern municipal incinerator designs include a high-temperature zone, where the flue gas is sustained at a temperature above 850 °C (1,560 °F) for at least 2 seconds before it is cooled down. They are equipped with auxiliary heaters to ensure this at all times. These are often fueled by oil or natural gas, and are normally only active for a very small fraction of the time. Further, most modern incinerators utilize fabric filters (often with Teflon membranes to enhance collection of sub-micron particles) which can capture dioxins present in or on solid particles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration

In Sweden, about 50% of the generated waste is burned in waste-to-energy facilities, producing electricity and supplying local cities’ district heating systems. The importance of waste in Sweden’s electricity generation scheme is reflected on their 700.000 tons of waste imported per year to supply waste-to-energy facilities.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2015/05/01/did-tesla-just-kill-nuclear-power/

Sorry

Human waste power plant goes online in the UK

http://www.gizmag.com/human-waste-to-gas-project-goes-live/16572/

Omni Processor – S200

http://janickibioenergy.com/s200.html

this looks like the go, it could be used by Australian towns on the coast to stop poisonous water from going into the surrounding oceans