Without plastic packaging, half the supermarket would fail food safety standards, and the other half would be unaffordable.
Mixed plastic wastes cannot be usefully recycled without risking the emission of dioxin, the mutagen and carcinogen that made Agent Orange famous. Processing them also produces more carbon dioxide than the original manufacturing process.
But burning plastic is really stupid.
Find an old coal or hard rock mine, fill it with baled mixed plastics, and cap with soil.
Around a tonne of carbon sequestered per cubic metre. Remove the biodegradation additive mandate and the baled plastic will keep that carbon out of the biosphere for millions to hundreds of millions of years.
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