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Did you ever try to burn plastic? 1) Plastic is not liquid, so you can't pipe it to a gas or oil power plant. You may argue that coal isn't liquid either, but
by M95D 9mo ago
Did you ever try to burn plastic?
1) Plastic is not liquid, so you can't pipe it to a gas or oil power plant. You may argue that coal isn't liquid either, but continue reading...
2) Burning plastic generates toxic fumes.
3) Plastic ash is sticky and very difficult to clean.
- eru 9mo agoYou might like to read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy_plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy_plant It's a fascinating topic. There's even more problems than the ones you bring up, but engineers are also pretty smart.