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by lstodd 1492 days ago
Yeah, no.

It spews NOx and the whole bunch of undesirable things like dioxines.

You don't get pure PET and oxygen in, and you don't get pure CO2+H2O out.

It's messy to the point that it's debatable if it's better just to bury it.

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Why would you have NOx? The fire is not that hot. And no, there are no dioxines because they burn up in the fire.

> It's messy to the point that it's debatable if it's better just to bury it.

No, it's not. You do get that people are doing this already, right now? It's not some theoretical - there's a huge amount of plastics being burned, and it's very clean.