We returned from the beach where we had been burning our paper and plastic.
Looked at the mobile phone and saw that the OCC had sent me a mail including advice on "Minimising the creation of waste and waste disposal".

It stated "Beach burns are a tempting way to deal with waste when you don’t have options. But the relatively low temperatures of beach fires create toxic emissions, and not just from plastics. " 

So I felt guilty - but only briefly.

Anything written about minimizing our impact on our environment should state "do the best you can!" Ideally we would save up our plastic and deliver it to the authorities at the end of the journey. We did this for 54 days crossing the Pacific. But what do you do when the locals don't have a way of dealing with rubbish? We are on an atoll where they dig holes, throw their rubbish in and burn it. We were recently on an island where they burn everything on a big heap. Not long ago we asked the police and they told us to take it "round the back" and burn it in their bin. Recycling doesn't happen because the cost of returning glass & metal is more than the scrap value.

If life goes according to plan then we may see a bin in half a year.
So we "do the best we can".
We burn plastics as hot as we can and then bury the ash.
We smash metal as flat as we can and save glass. Both get "buried at sea" outside the 12nm limit and in over 2000 meters.

Not what the experts suggest but sometimes life isn't perfect