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by amanaplanacanal 974 days ago
Most of those problems don’t apply to plastic waste.
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I believe all of them do, which ones were you thinking don't?

It seems common to falsely believe that burying plastic in landfills has less greenhouse gas emissions than recycling it, so I'll assume that's what you are referring to.

> The existing literature on LCA of plastic waste management is vast and the results reported are generally consistent, showing that recycling generates the lowest GWP and TEU environmental impacts.

LCA: lifecycle analysis

GWP: global warming potential

TEU: Total Energy Use

https://watermark.silverchair.com/140001_1_online.pdf