Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global recycling crisis

Re:Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global ... by FrozenVoid on Sunday August 18, 2019 @08:02AM (#20729689)

"Smart burning" is still burning. Why not convert it to oil? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20729477

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Re:Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global ... by wolfi1 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @08:18AM (#20729752)

if you use it for combined heat and power the efficiency is far higher

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Re:Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global ... by m4rtink on Sunday August 18, 2019 @06:55PM (#20733478)

Thats what the Brno (a Czech city with ~400 000 thousand inhabitants) does with its trash - its incinerated in a modern incinerator plant, yielding a couple dozen MW of electricity and enough heat to run the city wide distroct heating system during the summer. During the winter it contributes about 20%.

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Re:Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global ... by PeterisP on Sunday August 18, 2019 @06:18PM (#20733307)

And what will you do with that oil afterwards? It'll get burned as well, just not that cleanly.

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