The current fashion is to recycle plastic into smoke and electricity by incineration. E.g. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2009/ee/b908135f http

The current fashion is to recycle plastic into smoke and electricity by incineration. E.g. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2009/ee/b908135f https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2009/ee/b9081... It used to be that we would sell the plastic to energy producers in places like India, where environmental controls where less strict. But, more recently, we are burning the stuff domestically. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/co2-emissions-plastic-waste-england-b1882784.html https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/co2-emissi... One problem with this is that the incinerators are being placed close to the source, i.e. residential areas. So that toxic smoke is adding to urban air pollution.