Is there anyway to burn waste or trash and turn it into energy

i would like to know if there is a way to simply burn the trash or waste and turn in into energy someone how. or if its not possible to turn it into energy, at least destroy it completely without polluting the environment.

thanks

Is there a way to burn trash to generate energy that can be converted to electricity, yes and there are many real world examples out there.

Is it simple? No. The composition of waste or trash can be such that it must be processed before it can enter the combustion chamber. Remember, some things don't burn (water is one clear example). Some things burn poorly and load up the combustion chamber with matter that does not do anything (clay pots, iron, glass, ceramics, aluminum, etc.)

Yes and they already do. They use it as fuel to produce steam to run a turbine. Many landfills also use the gas that is produced from the garbage and pump that into a turbine, this gets rid of the gas being released into the atmosphere and at the same time produce electricity. In the past they would just burn the gas off, so it makes sense to use it as fuel in a turbine to produce electricity from it first.

yes there are many ways

all cost $ usually more than the cost of coal or oil for the same energy BUT it reduces pollution and waste and is very economical

you always have some waste

nature recycles everything but humans in the industrial revolution take new material wood , iron ore coal , make stuff and then throw the "waste" away
Obviously this cannot go on forever

Yes there are some incinerators that do just that, generating steam
to drive generators. You have to be careful about polution from what you
might be burning though.
There are also plants that extract methane from landfills and burn that clean fuel
derived from the unsorted trash they contain.

Sure. Throw it in your wood stove and burn it. Large plants do the same thing.

Throw it in a dump, and pretty soon methane will come bubbling out, and you can burn that.