Re:Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills
by tasty_freeze on Monday July 29, 2019 @09:35AM
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Sure, you can burn plastics -- but releasing even more CO2 is not attractive. There is a lot of talk about ways to sequester carbon -- it seems like throwing away tons of plastic is doing exactly that. Now, I'm sure it could be done in a better way that is currently being done, but burning it seems like non-starter.
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Re:Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills
by JulianMorrison on Monday July 29, 2019 @09:46AM
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Plastic as such isn't a safe way to sequester carbon.
It may be possible to burn it into charcoal, which would be safe to sequester? But the noxious flue gases would need to be cleaned.