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Japan incinerates trash for energy, and yet they typically require residents to separate plastics from "burnables". Maybe it'd be better (and easier) for everyo
by resonious 3y ago
Japan incinerates trash for energy, and yet they typically require residents to separate plastics from "burnables". Maybe it'd be better (and easier) for everyone if we just started putting everything into the burnable pile.
- HPsquared 3y agoRecyclable packaging tends to make for pretty good fuel.
- tuukkah 3y agoDuring last winter's energy crisis, Finnish cities were heated with plastics collected in Italy.
- tuukkah 3y agoAnother reason for the sorting at least here is that the companies using plastic packaging are the ones responsible for and paying the disposal system. I think the theory is that this will cause them to reduce plastics use and develop improved re-use.