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From what I remember after the correction there was no longer a correlation with color. Obviously no one want flame retardant, but staying away from specifical
by ars 1y ago
From what I remember after the correction there was no longer a correlation with color.
Obviously no one want flame retardant, but staying away from specifically black plastic doesn't do anything.
I can't find a link right now, but for what I remember other authors agreed with the data after correction, but disagreed with the conclusion.
- Scramblejams 1y agoGot it. I didn't intend my original post to be color-specific. But if that's the case, then all the more reason to just bury plastics. (Or burn 'em, I guess, but when you have potentially a whole host of mystery toxic chemicals hiding in them, is your typical scrubber going to catch all of 'em? I don't know the answer, but I'd be surprised if specialization wasn't required. Probably safer to bury.)
- ars 1y agodecaBDE will burn to CO2 and bromine. Bromine is highly chemically reactive and will easily be caught in a filter. Most chemicals are like that, they are either non-reactive and safe, or reactive and dangerous but easily filtered. (The in between stuff is a bit harder.) Interestingly it's true for nuclear reactions: The highly radioactive stuff decays very fast and is not a problem, the really long lived stuff is barely radioactive. The worrisome stuff has medium length lives.