Tons and tons of plastic are burned on a daily basis and its not 'the worst ecological disaster of all time'. Anybody freaking out about the train wreck is being played, WAKE UP. PS. I am standing next to a bottle of Hydrogen Chloride(muriatic acid)....otherwise known as stomach acid.
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Burning vinyl chloride produces Hydrochloric acid and Phosgene gas. Phosgene was used extensively during World War I as a choking (pulmonary) agent. Among the chemicals used in the war, phosgene was responsible for the large majority of deaths. Phosgene gas is heavier than air, so it will not rise and disperse - it will consolidate in low lying areas.
HCL is gastric acid....its in your belly right now. Freon readily decomposes to phosgene gas also. I ain't saying its good for you, its just not as dangerous as you are making it out to be. Stand around a bonfire burning plastic and you will be exposed to the same thing....Now lets talk about a MOUNTAIN of tires burning, it would be the equivalent of 10,000 tanker cars burning.