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The burning of plastics is known to produce carenogens (cancer causing dioxins). Some plastics, especially those used in older computers and some older electronics contain brominated flame retardants, of which the health side effects are unknown.

Plastics are further manufactured from Oil (long chain polymers), hence when burnt, give off carbon dioxide. A known side effect of this (other than global warming) is the acidification of rain, which during the 1980's caused mass deforestaton in skandinavia.

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