You personally don't have a qualified dumping site or a trash-fueled generator with exhaust scrubbers, so you should send your garbage off to collection.
> This is the first I’ve heard of exhaust scrubbers! I thought we were talking about the literal impact of burning plastic?
We were never talking about just burning plastic. We were talking about burning plastic inside a heat/power plant.
And power plants, especially trash-fueled ones, have exhaust scrubbers. I only mentioned it now for emphasis, not because I was changing anything.
The first comment you replied to specified "industrial incinerator" for a reason.
> How does burning plastic impact things for people that don’t own exhaust scrubbers?
I don't care how it affects those people, because they're burning it outside a power plant, and they're not part of this conversation. If they burn it it's worse than if they bury it, but they shouldn't be doing either one. They should be handing the trash over to people that are equipped to handle it properly.
And 'acceptable' rather than 'optimal'.