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Why can’t we throw all our trash into a volcano and burn it up?

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When Kilauea erupted in Hawaii in 2018 , the lava flows were hotter than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit ( 1,100 Celsius) Georgine T. Johnson : Why can’t we throw all our trash into a volcano and burn it up? It’s true that lava is hot enough to burn up some of our trash, but there are other good reasons not to burn our trash in volcanoes.

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