> Do localities with plasma gasifiers end up purchasing waste from elsewhere to maintain waste input stocks?

This… sounds like a very good problem to have?

> Is there any (realistic) concern that plasma gasification causes an adverse incentive to generate additional waste vs waste reduction efforts

If waste reduction is a problematic catalyst for more production and pollution, … We have a problem even bigger than I thought.

I would hope that would not be the case, but apparently recycling theater successfully reduced efforts to push back on the supply side.

Our self-created problems are becoming ridiculous. By the time the ultra rich are chocking on plastic in their caviar the rest of us will already be plasticized.

> Do localities with plasma gasifiers end up purchasing waste from elsewhere to maintain waste input stocks?

This wouldn’t be a problem for a very long time. The reason so much of this waste ends up being landfilled or shipped overseas is due to a lack of capacity in existing waste-to-energy plants. It isn’t quite like the perverse-incentive problem introduced by biomass facilities because the waste is going to be generated regardless.

Waste to energy plants don’t make money. They lessen the waste. So, buying trash to loose less money is postponing bankruptcy. They run on free money. Sounds fun though

You can tax plastic also that will more than move the demand you can even use this tax for plasma gasification making more expensive to use and less to reuse.