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Message started by DentonDoc on Apr 10th, 2011 at 5:30pm

Title: Re: Food containers
Post by Joe_Schmeaux on Nov 9th, 2011 at 1:53am
Re toxic fumes from burning plastic:

It depends on how complete the combustion is. At 100%, all that gets produced is carbon dioxide and water.

If you have a good hot fire going and the plastic has lots of surface area (like ziplock bags), combustion is essentially complete. If you have a smouldering fire, or the plastic is in a solid chunk, then there can be some harmful emissions.

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