Is it worth generating energy with garbage? Defining a carbon tax to encourage waste-to-energy cycles

•Carbon taxes affect the prices of fossil energy and stimulates renewable sources.•A carbon tax was modeled for hybrid- and incineration cycles burning solid wastes.•Destroyed exergy is taken into account in the Carbon Exergy Tax model.•The Carbon Exergy Tax encourages the desirable destruction of s...

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