Burning it (along with other garbage) is a feasible way to “recycle” it. One thing that wasn’t mentioned in the article (or many when it comes to “garbage”) is the amount of food that is not wasted due to the excellent packaging that plastic provides.
I forget the details, but they had estimates of how much food was damaged back in the day before plastics (and shipping containers) and it was astounding. I can only imagine a ship with bananas that had to be loaded into cargo nets, hauled on board, dropped in the hold, transported across the ocean and then the process reversed once it got to the states.
Bananas-—PLUS spiders & snakes——:)