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I read that Singapore waste management/disposal is top notch, those plastic would most likely end up in incinerator and eventually to man-made offshore Semakau Landfill which itself is an attraction spot.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/a-rare-glimps...

https://thesmartlocal.com/read/semakau-landfill

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This is just throwing more (fossil fuel) energy into collecting and burning avoidable trash and into building more structures to accomodate it. How is that "top notch"? This might solve the short-term plastic pollution issue, but goes against all recommendations for climate change mitigation.

It's time to start considering CO2 emissions as our transparent, unmanageable trash. Each Singaporean is generating 10 tonnes of it yearly, and each American is generating 16 tonnes of it yearly.

Incineration actually recovers energy from trash - plastics are made from fairly complex petrochemicals, and so have a decent energy content.

The climate change issue is that, when burning it, you release carbon just like when burning any other fossil fuel.

Technically, it's even worse than other fossil fuels, because of all the extra steps involved in the plastic life-cycle, increasing its carbon footprint.

Waste-to-energy is a growing part of Singapore's energy mix, and that's not exciting news.

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