Comment on Most soft plastic collected for recycling is burned, campaigners say

• Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Burning is the best outcome actually, burrying means it’s going to leech out

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• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  in a way that won’t pollute the water table

  So don’t bury it then?

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  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Obviously they mean bury it in some sort of water-tight container like plastic.

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nah, it would still collect water and pollute, better to burn it at high temps

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