On 27/09/2019 21:20, Roger Hayter wrote:
dennis@home wrote:

On 27/09/2019 14:10, Andy Burns wrote:
newshound wrote:

We have an incinerator opening soon and the offer of "tours". This
will be one of my questions!

Will an incinerator care that much about what plastics are separated,
provided it burns?

They try to avoid plastics as they can produce dioxins if the flue temp
is wrong.
You don't want dioxins in the environment with you.
This is why you shouldn't just burn your own rubbish with plastics in.

Aren't modern incinerators designed to run so hot that hardly a single
carbon atom escapes unoxidised?

Yup. Its not hard to decompose dioxins
Just get it hot enough

The greater probvlem AIUI is not carbon and hydrogen, its things like
sulphurous and nitrous oxides, trace heavy metal oxides and so on


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