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> Plastic from UK is either burned in Poland to power cement production' It's basically burning fossil fuel. Too bad about the dioxins though.
by Scoundreller 4y ago
> Plastic from UK is either burned in Poland to power cement production'
It's basically burning fossil fuel. Too bad about the dioxins though.
- userbinator 4y agoDepends 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.
- formerly_proven 4y agoYeah but if you ask people no one thinks "burning it" would count as recycling, but it does.