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Re:Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global recycling ...
on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:30PM (#20731572)
No semantics needed. In both cases waste plastic is transformed into feedstock for a process that would have otherwise extracted non-renewable resources.
Except one works but gives people the geebee geebes. The other one makes us forget our opulent consumption but doesn’t work and kills marine life.
Re:Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global recycling ...
on Sunday August 18, 2019 @08:13AM (#20729736)
Sassy! Uninformed, but sassy!
It’s is substituting one fossil fuel product that is buried in the ground with a fissile fuel that’s about to be tossed in the ocean.
Would it be better to recycle said fissile fuel? Somewhat [0], but recycling is very hard and is not going to happen any time soon.
[0] recycling the plastic is only better if you also substitute the need to burn most any fissile fuels (since you could always make CH4 from the plastic) We’re not there yet, so burning plastic is probably the best we can do using scalable, easily accessible and proven technology.