Grist: Q. Dear Umbra,
What`s worse: burning plastic trash, or letting it sit in a landfill? I`m thinking of not-easily-recyclable plastic packaging especially - are its components perhaps more easily dispersed as gases rather than slowly leaching in a landfill?
Signed,
Wilburforce
A. Dearest Wilburforce,
As anyone who has ever witnessed someone toss an errant water bottle or crinkly wrapper into a campfire can attest, burning plastic is a nasty business. It stinks; it spews oddly colored...