Should plastics be a source of energy? The plastics crisis has some asking if we should burn more plastic waste and at least get energy out of it

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The plastics crisis has some asking if we should burn more plastic waste and at least get energy out of it by Alexander H. Tullo SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 | APPEARED IN VOLUME 96, ISSUE 38 Credit: Yang H. Ku/C&EN/Shutterstock I ADVERTISEMENT n Rahway, N.J., near Route 1&9, looming cooling towers and a huge white smokestack dwarf the nearby car dealerships, fast-food joints, and motels. The installation is visible for miles and is a familiar landmark to the highway’s regulars, but likely few of them know what is going on inside. The structure is the Union County Resource Recovery IN BRIEF Facility, a waste-to-energy facility that Covanta operates on behalf of the local government. Instead of the usual The plastic waste problem has coal or natural gas, it burns garbage to make electricity. grown into a crisis over the past Inside, a parade of garbage trucks from all around the year as more people have become county tilt their loads onto the facility’s floor. What aware of ocean plastic litter and MOST POPULAR IN comes in is the assorted dross the local citizenry throws China shut its doors to waste plastics ENVIRONMENT

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