Incineration
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While
incineration
and landfilling are still practiced, such high recycling rates underscore the positive impact of targeted policies.
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The recycling of plastic in many developing countries means the
incineration
of the plastic, the burning of the plastic, which releases incredible toxic chemicals and, once again, kills people.
Or were they brought by soldiers for incineration, as another version maintained, as part of a haul of “extremist literature” and prisoners’ personal communications, with Afghan workers alerting others at the base to the nature of the material?
There are four categories of plastics recycling: primary recycling, in which the plastic is re-used in the same application; secondary recycling, in which material (mixed or contaminated) is used in less demanding applications; tertiary recycling, in which the plastic is converted into monomers or chemicals; and quaternary recycling, in which only energy is recovered through
incineration.
This translates into a higher proportion of plastics in the remnants of shredded end-of-life automobiles – a contaminated mixture of plastics and non-plastics that is usually disposed of through some combination of landfilling, incineration, and secondary recycling.
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