Comment by analog31
Yes, burn the plastic.
Yes, burn the plastic.
They already burn toxic waste in cement kilns for this reason. A cement plant can operate on widely varying feedstocks. One that I visited could switch from coal to gas at any moment, based on the relative price of each, and was also burning seed corn that was past its expiry date.
The thing gets so hot that complex molecules are simply dissociated.
But the CO2 goes into the atmosphere.
This is the interesting thing IMHO. Burning the plastic and extracting the CO2 is a neat way to “clean” a dirty waste stream.