12-27-2007, 04:55 PM
Burning plastic does not get rid of it -- the form is changed, the toxicity is concentrated, and the toxins stays here. There is no 'away.' Burning plastic creates poisons.
Remember? Matter and energy cannot be destroyed, only moved around and changed in form.
Alternative? Use less. Reuse more. Recycle more.
It is prejudgmental to the extreme to say what would or would not happen with more recycling here.
As for what is possible 'now' -- incineration in Hilo would, at the soonest, be up and burning in 4 to 5 years. Is that now?
Next year -- in one year -- a re-use and recycling program can be operating; and in two years, paying its own way.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park