Incineration
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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.
While
incineration
and landfilling are still practiced, such high recycling rates underscore the positive impact of targeted policies.
In Japan, waste disposal relies mainly on incineration, but use of landfill off the coast made it possible to process the waste more quickly.
In addition, although
incineration
greatly decreases the volume of waste, the concentration of radioactive cesium has been increasing over the past year, making it difficult to find suitable final disposal sites.
The massacre of 22 civilians by the army last June in Tlatlaya, a small town west of Mexico City, and the disappearance and subsequent murder and
incineration
of 43 students, also close to the capital, was not a new type of development in Mexico.
And, for North Korea – or Iran, should it ever build nuclear weapons – the risk of the regime initiating a nuclear attack is negligible, given that doing so would result in its certain (non-nuclear)
incineration.
A zero-waste circular economy for textiles would include not just more use of the clothes that are produced, but also improved recycling and repurposing of materials, to avoid emissions-producing waste-disposal processes like
incineration.
And regulations should ban putting plastics in landfills and plastic incineration, forcing the development of a complete plastics recycling system.
According to recent estimates, plastic production and
incineration
could emit 56 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2050, accounting for 10-13% of the total carbon budget we can “spend” by mid-century under current emissions-reduction commitments.
In Asia, entire cities are moving toward zero-waste solutions through decentralized community-led and centered initiatives, bans on single-use plastics, and lobbying against waste
incineration.
The cloth of which the balloon-case was made was then cleaned by means of soda and potash, obtained by the
incineration
of plants, in such a way that the cotton, having got rid of the varnish, resumed its natural softness and elasticity; then, exposed to the action of the atmosphere, it soon became perfectly white.
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