Do Plastics Release Toxic Fumes When Burned or Decomposed?

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1. Plastics are a pollution problem because mainy plastics:



a)burn to produce toxic fumes
b)decomopose to produce toxic fumes



3. I'm confused with burn and decompose because a thing will burn and afterwards decompose.
 
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