A visual of how much smoke and pollutants are given off by burning plastic



    by freudian_nipps

    36 Comments

    1. And then they’re “showing” how much smoke is created and then what happens when the demonstration is over?…….The smoke then goes into the atmosphere just like burning plastic?

    2. iLikeMangosteens on

      I wonder that they’re going to do with that giant plastic balloon when they’re done with it?

    3. I saw somewhere that this is kind of misleading. Something about this being a specific process to coat the inside of the weather balloon to protect it from UV when it gets to high altitude? Fact check me but that made sense to me.

    4. Only if it’s combusted at low temperatures in a campfire.

      Incinerating waste plastic under controlled conditions and high temperatures can reduce that waste to basic molecules, and is far healthier environmentally than most other available
      options for disposal.

      If that still doesn’t sit right, it’s because the actual right thing to do is never produce this plastic in the first place.

    5. Rare_Cause_1735 on

      Burning it in a semi closed low airflow environment is making it smoke more. Not that I need any convincing that burning plastic is bad.

    6. Stinky_Fartface on

      Cameraman whatever you do don’t pan up to show the full impact just keep focusing on the grass.

    7. Thankfully Greta Thunberg was there to inhale it all in one huge hit for mother earth. It made them burning plastic all worthwhile.

    8. mikeybagodonuts on

      Trapping burnt plastic residue in a big bag is as dumb as Dicaprio and his private jets.

    9. If I remember correctly from the last time I saw this posted, they’re doing that to coat the inside of the balloon. It’s not to demonstrate how much smoke & pollutants are burned from plastic.

    10. So to show us how terrible of humans we are, you do the exact thing that you don’t want us to do

    11. wasn’t the last time this was posted just showing what one campfire looks like? I didn’t think it had anything to do with plastic.

    12. Square-Tangerine2926 on

      Oh wow start fire inside of a plast balloon and see how much smoke is there. Smoke bad. Blah blah blah lol. I don’t disagree though. Plastic waste is bad. Their method of saying it is as dumb as legislators taking private jets to 200 different places to tell us to conserve.

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