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I'm slightly surprised by landfilling plastic. I hear it's pretty high calorie, up to the point of being energy-positive to burn it with filtering out the fumes
by lrem 5y ago
I'm slightly surprised by landfilling plastic. I hear it's pretty high calorie, up to the point of being energy-positive to burn it with filtering out the fumes. Is it just not enough to make this money-positive when accounting for handling?
- nitrogen 5y agoSome places do have energy and material recovery facilities next to their landfills that try to extract useful metal and useful energy from trash.
- dnautics 5y agoI believe Japan does this, but there are dioxins all over the place there.
- fomine3 5y agoDioxins were become problem in 90s so smaller incinerator is banned and now incinerators must run on high temperature (> 800C) for not to emit dioxins. Emissions are also must be measured.
- londons_explore 5y agoThere are plenty of manmade chemicals that don't break down at 800C. For example F-C bonds... We really ought to be incinerating things at 3000C, but so far we haven't been able to engineer machines to do this without melting themselves...
- fomine3 5y agoOf course not every material can be burned but still fine.