Thank you for the comment. I was not aware of the subsidy. Sigh, there goes that too.

It's not that we don't have our own peculiar problems about waste incineration here in Finland, it's just that being an outsider I have trouble understanding those of Italy.

However, all this doesn't seem to change the fact that regardless of the causes, we are throwing away energy and not necessarily helping the GHG situation that much overall, by burying waste into landfills (methane emissions) when not burning it, but instead buying electricity made from coal :(

Such is the depth of human folly.

Well, incineration is only somewhat more efficient than landfilling with gas recovery. But the available studies clearly show that recycling is much better and re-using is even more. But we tend to choose always the worst available path. The depth of human folly, indeed.