alt Hacker News> Is there any (realistic) concern that plasma gasification causes an adverse incentive to generate additional waste vs waste reduction efforts
If waste reduction is a problematic catalyst for more production and pollution, … We have a problem even bigger than I thought.
I would hope that would not be the case, but apparently recycling theater successfully reduced efforts to push back on the supply side.
Our self-created problems are becoming ridiculous. By the time the ultra rich are chocking on plastic in their caviar the rest of us will already be plasticized.
Maybe I am misunderstanding your comment, but I dont see plasma gasification as waste reduction. We are reusing the waste for energy production. We could be making efforts to reduce the overall amount of plastic waste (perhaps through legislation), but if we become reliant on the energy generated, we would be incentivized to avoid waste reduction because we want the energy. FWIW, “recycling theater” is also not waste reduction and is a separate, but related, problem that increases plastic waste.