About the Authors

Neil Tangri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ntangri@berkeley.edu

Affiliations Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the author of this manuscript has the following competing interest: I am employed at GAIA, a non-governmental organization that advocates for zero waste and against the burning of waste in incinerators. The analysis and opinions stated in the paper are entirely the author’s own.