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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by Scoundreller on Sunday August 14, 2022 @08:17PM (#32464440)
> Plastic from UK is either burned in Poland to power cement production'

It's basically burning fossil fuel. Too bad about the dioxins though.

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by userbinator on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:32PM (#32465556)
Depends on which type of plastic. Burning anything halogenated is really bad, but e.g. polypropylene or polyethylene is comparable to natural gas in terms of emissions (CO2+H2O) because they contain only C and H.
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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by formerly_proven on Monday August 15, 2022 @03:55AM (#32466934)
Yeah but if you ask people no one thinks "burning it" would count as recycling, but it does.
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