Another comment there said it was just "burning polyvinyl chloride" so largely harmless. It wasn't poly vinyl chloride, it was the monomer vinyl chloride, which is a hazardous gas itself (exposure limit 1ppm) and turns into hydrogen chloride and phosgene when burned, which are also nasty.
Another comment there said it was just "burning polyvinyl chloride" so largely harmless. It wasn't poly vinyl chloride, it was the monomer vinyl chloride, which is a hazardous gas itself (exposure limit 1ppm) and turns into hydrogen chloride and phosgene when burned, which are also nasty.