Why not just burn it? Most plastics can be incinerated pretty quickly, releasing quite a bit of energy. The only downside is the release of CO2, but that shoul

Why not just burn it? Most plastics can be incinerated pretty quickly, releasing quite a bit of energy. The only downside is the release of CO2, but that should be reasonably easy to capture. And you'd avoid creating massive toxic landfills. Just putting stuff in a big pile and hoping nothing bad happens to it isn't really a solution.