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Plastic waste from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, France, the US and Britain is being used to fuel tofu production in Indonesia, the Guardian has learned.

Five factory owners in an industrial village in East Java, and one environmental organisation told the Guardian that imported plastic is burned daily to fuel furnaces in factories that produce tofu, prompting concern about serious health impacts.

Each day about 60 tofu factories in Tropodo fire up their boilers and fryers and then feed them with a combination of plastic waste, wood and coconut husks, producing about 60 tonnes of tofu that is distributed in the region, including to Indonesia’s second-largest city Surabaya. The tofu is not sold outside Indonesia.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Video tour of plastic burning tofu factorys here https://youtu.be/WPyRAcdZHDo

It's hardcore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Holy shit 😥

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Skeet skeet

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder what the Japanese source is. I thought we recycled PET and burnt all the rest for power here. I guess not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Probably Australian LNG

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At least there won't be microplastics released to the environment if all the plastic is incinerated properly

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

pRoPerLY is carrying a lot of weight there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah plastic fuel pellets in a proper incinerator is way different than open burning

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh yeah don't just burn it under a fucking stove haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Whenever I have a bonfire, I burn all my plastics. The trick is to pee around the bonfire before burning it. That's the proper way to do it. ^/s^

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wait till you hear about what they put inside the dead animals and their secretions you eat. Also fresh produce, water, air, soil. Everything humans ever touched and everything around it is contaminated

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