Burning plastics for energy

[roscoe erf]

Would be far better turning the plastic back into petrol and diesel but wait were banning fossil fuel cars so the market is evaporating. Even better still dont use plastic in the first place.

now if my memory is working didn't British airways have a scheme to get jet fuel from waste plastics a few years ago not heard any more about it so assume it fell flat on its face

 

[roscoe erf]

Seems to me incinerators are a license to print money. Charge people £100/t+ to dispose of waste…..then incinerate it. I get the building costs a lot to build, but I can’t see they cost significant amounts to run.

if its anything like the straw burners hoops they have to jump though you'd be surprised

 

[Gadget]

Options for rubbish that is not recyclable -
1. No collection
2. Dig a hole near your town and put it in
3. Put an incinerator/energy from waste plant near your town
4. Other suggestions????

2. Seperate it and bury it in one place, few years ago no plastic was recycleable but some is now. In the future, when technology moves on, dig it up and use it.

 

[___\0/___]

The one up the road in Hartlebury doesn't seem to have any problems. But that is an incinerator, not gasification..

Think they had a bit of a rough start going over emissions because of "explosion on grate" and one or two other things.

But latest report not to bad

https://ukwin.org.uk/library/212-AnnualPerformanceReport-2020.xlsx

 

[Exfarmer]

Most plastics are recyclable and virtually all can be burnt safely.
But only if you have them sorted into types and that is where it falls down.
Countries like Japan have at least a dozen different plastic bins at the recycling centres.
Once they all go into one bin mixed together then the fun starts

 

[quattro]

Cement works burns all sorts of stuff for fuel, shredded tyres, meat & bone meal, cemfuel (paints and solvents), and now 1000's tonnes of council waste. Scrubbers in the top of the chimney are supposed to remove any residues. It can smell of burnt plastic sometimes though. Probably gets paid more to burn the waste than it makes on the cement

There's a council waste incinerator (with all the smoke scrubbers) by the A1 at Boroughbridge running under capacity while bale wrap taken to local Yorwaste depot goes to landfill.

I’ve mentioned this one before, There’s a video on that one on YouTube it seems to make sense

 

[renewablejohn]

You can get a process that turns plastic into methane and then inject it into the gas grid. What is the point its still a fossil fuel by another route and does not solve the problem of using plastic in the first place.