Just thinking in terms of compared to microplastics and toxins in recycled plastic.

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    5 months ago

    No it isn’t more ‘green’

    Burning it creates much more toxins etc. than a ‘normal’ recycling procedure. And of course lots of soot and CO2 and whatnot…

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      Plus burning it allows those toxins to disperse across the environment while more traditional recycling can keep the toxins mostly concentrated on landfill/processing sites.