The charm offensive also explains, without ever using the words "incinerator" or "burn", that the proposed "thermal conversionplant" will also pay its way by generating electricity.
In green energy news, this week Lockheed Martin announced plans to construct the world's largest ocean thermal energy conversionplant off the southern coast of China.
They would be converted into glucose (of which cellulose, which makes up much of the dry weight of a plant, is a polymer) and the glucose would be shipped around much as oil is today, for eventual conversion into biofuels and bioplastics.