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A lot of plastics are incinerated. I think it has to be at a high temperature. Of course this does emit carbon dioxide.


The temperature at which burning polymers completely eliminates particulates and CO is very close to the temperature that NOx starts to form.

Source: I did a bunch of research on rocket mass heaters (think rocket stove, not missile engine) when I built one.




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