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Why? Are you implying that it’s less intensive to collect used plastics from consumers and ship that to burning stations to generate energy vs. pumping natural
by RC_ITR 3y ago
Why?
Are you implying that it’s less intensive to collect used plastics from consumers and ship that to burning stations to generate energy vs. pumping natural gas and shipping it in pipelines?
The problem with any plastic recycling/burning plan is always the energy needed to collect, sort and divert it.
We should focus on the lowest-energy way to keep it out of the ocean, which for the most part (outside of island nations) is burying it somewhere in modern well maintained landfills.
- tonyedgecombe 3y ago>Are you implying that it’s less intensive to collect used plastics from consumers and ship that to burning stations to generate energy vs. pumping natural gas and shipping it in pipelines? We have to collect it whatever we do, whether it's driven to a waste incineration plant or a landfill site makes little difference.