Introduction

In the past centuries, when human beings made their living by fishing, hunting and farming, the planet was still green, calm and beautiful with blue seas and bright sky. However, the human race has started to exploit the planet’s scarce resources to support the fast growing population, to drive economic development and to accelerate urbanization that generates massive pollution far beyond our imagination. The ecological balance that every human being is relying on is now facing a life-and-death trial.

For a long period of time, the sole method to dispose of daily waste, counted in millions of tones, is to dump into landfills. Therefore, large areas are occupied by the artificial waste mountains when air, water and soil are severely polluted. Incinerating waste for the generation of electricity is a way to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills and