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by ZeroGravitas
1762 days ago
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No, the evidence is very clear that recycling plastic into more plastic is the best option for minimizing carbon and energy use. There's no benefit to storing carbon if you immediately turn round and extract fossil fuels to replace the carbon you just buried. Even when we start making plastic at large scales from captured carbon, it's still not a good idea to bury that if you then need to go and make more of it. Landfills are just generally not the best option and you'll probably find support for them traces back directly to fossil fuel interests since they very neatly line up with their incentive structure compared with the alternatives. |
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I think that's exactly wrong, if it's really made from captured carbon. At that point, it would make sense to make plastic with the sole intent of burying it.