Columbia University Professor Nickolas Themelis wrote an excellent op-ed entitled “Don’t Trash Waste-to-Energy” which was published in the Cape Cod Times.  His piece highlights the irrational attitude of some environmentalists who say if you ban landfills and incinerators, people will reduce, recycle and compost their way to zero waste.  Themelis argues that Massachusetts must lift its moratorium on new waste-to-energy capacity rather than succumbing to the "misguided opposition...of "environmental" groups."