Question

passage burning plastic is no solution ​

Answer 1

Burning of plastics can release dioxins.

Dioxin is a known human carcinogen and the most potent synthetic carcinogen ever tested in the laboratory.

Dioxin is a toxic organic chemical that contains chlorine and it is produced when chlorine and hydrocarbons are heated at high temperatures. When inhaled, or exposed to dioxin, its fume can cause many deadly results .

Dioxins are the most toxic to the human organisms.

They are a hormone disruptor and persistent , and they accumulate in our body and thus the mothers give it directly to their babies via the placenta.

Dioxins also settle on the crops and in our waterways where they wind up in our food.

They accumulate in our bodies and they are passed on to our children .

Answer 2

Burning plastic and other wastes releases dangerous substances such as heavy metals, Persistent Organic Pollutants, and other toxics into the air and ash waste residues. Experience looking at the few commercial-scale gasification, pyrolysis, and plasma arc facilities that have actually processed municipal solid wastes (as opposed to processing other materials) shows that these approaches can emit the same pollutants as mass-burn incinerators. Such pollutants contribute to the development of asthma, cancer, endocrine disruption, and the global burden of disease. Persistent Organic Pollutants travel long distances, and ultimately deposit into the ocean and polar ice caps, where they can adsorb onto other plastic marine debris and microplastics, bioaccumulating up the food chain, threatening marine and human health.