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Yes, you can, but is strongly not recommended. Plastic smokes heavily when burned, releasing toxins. Different plastics release different toxins. Breathing the smoke of a plastic fire is dangerous as well due to the oily soot that is in the smoke.
Do not burn plastic in a campfire.
Fires that have caught in manufacturing facilities plastics are particularly difficult for firefighters to extinguish. The smoke that many plastics release when burned can be flammable as well.
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