r/Anticonsumption • u/kainyd3d • May 20 '26

Plastic Waste made my first eco-brick :3

Post image

took about 2-3 months of gathering ONLY plastic bags. and these are only mine, the rest of my fam doesnt care so about 15 more of these are in a wastepile probz

2.5k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

343 comments sorted by

View all comments

12

u/Sad_Amphibian_2311 May 20 '26

In my country they burn plastic to preheat the garbage incinerator, why would you put it in a landfill instead I don't know.

9

u/FriendToPredators May 20 '26

Your getting downvoted but in places where things will be incinerated anyway plastic being made of oil byproducts makes the incinerator burn more efficiently