It is certainly true that, with 12bn pads and 7m tampons dumped into US landfills each year, Thinx offer an alternative that's kinder to the environment.
The ash at the bottom of the combustion chamber is either buried in municipal landfills or recycled as aggregate for the construction industry.
He also notes that, although the country's landfills seem to be overflowing, America in fact produces only about 230m tonnes of municipal solid waste a year, compared with more than 2 billion tonnes of farm waste.
The city is planning to turn the waste of its 120,000 dogs into usable energy.Known for its environmental consciousness, San Francisco already uses a dozen recycling programmes to divert 63% of its household garbage away from landfills.
The traditional means of collection results in doggie dung mummified in plastic in landfills, rather than eventually breaking down.In this section Will there always be a New Orleans?
California has adopted ambitious targets for reducing emissions, and methane from landfills makes up 18% of the city's emissions.There has been little detailed cost-benefit analysis of California's emissions targets, Mr Blumenfeld happily concedes, or of San Francisco's aim of zero waste, or of any of the myriad environmental targets set by the city and by the state.
There was even talk of mining old landfills to extract steel and aluminium cans.
Indian streets are filthy and landfills a health hazard.
At some of the larger municipal landfills, the methane produced by anaerobic decomposition is captured and used to generate electricity.
The mountain of rubbish at the Puente Hills Landfill in Los Angeles, the largest of the 1,900 municipal landfills in America, is over 500-feet high taller than most of the skyscrapers in the city's downtown area to the west.
On the whole, says Henri Proglio, the boss of Veolia Environnement, the more complicated the treatment, the higher the margin.Between 1985 and 2005, as America's regulations got tighter and small landfills went out of business, average tipping fees rose from less than $10 per tonne to almost $35.
