> “Our recent report found high levels of persistent organic pollutants like dioxins or furans around waste incinerators in three countries.”

Three incinerators out of...? And why a potential violation of EU regulation would mean that incineration as a hole is bad?

There are plenty of incredibly clean incinerators, with emissions of dioxins and furans so low that you need to accumulate them over multiple days to be able to even detect them sometimes. If you use that recovered energy for heating, you probably avoid emitting other pollutants (even dioxins and furans).

The alternative is landfill disposal of non-inert waste, which is way worse than any kind of incineration, and it is very hard and complex to manage properly. There are plenty of landfill disasters.