What I don’t understand is why burning plastic waste and using the generated heat (for example for district heating) is not discussed more often. I think recycling offers very little benefit over simple burning of plastics due to the amount of oil still being burned everywhere compared to the amount of oil used for plastic production.

No, almost no wind. It really is a nice spot… They started to build some large scale tourist village there, there is a whole network of roads… But it has failed and so there are almost no buildings, which is nice in my opinion ;)