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Can it go the other way?
by jordemort 1y ago
Can it go the other way?
- analog31 1y agoYes, burn the plastic.
- actionfromafar 1y agoThis is the interesting thing IMHO. Burning the plastic and extracting the CO2 is a neat way to “clean” a dirty waste stream.
- lazide 1y agoPlastic is generally good in a landfill. And the co2 is sequestered.
- analog31 1y agoThey already burn toxic waste in cement kilns for this reason. A cement plant can operate on widely varying feedstocks. One that I visited could switch from coal to gas at any moment, based on the relative price of each, and was also burning seed corn that was past its expiry date. The thing gets so hot that complex molecules are simply dissociated. But the CO2 goes into the atmosphere.