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Originally Posted by coffeebean
My understanding is the plastic bags are incinerated and turned into energy. Isn't that recycling?
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Recycling means it’s turned into something else multiple to hundreds of times. Burning plastic has nothing to do with recycling, other than allowing people to put more plastic in the air. It is one of the highest greenhouse gas emitting forms of energy production. Burning emits 3.8 times more gas emissions than energy grid.
It’s significantly dirtier source of energy than coal and oil.so if that makes you smile keep using those plastic bags.
We use paper for trash, cleaning litter, anything else goes in the compost