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Depends what you burying, if it's paper and food waste, it is sequestering. Paper and food contain carbon pulled from the atmosphere, and by preventing it from
by ehmish 7y ago
Depends what you burying, if it's paper and food waste, it is sequestering. Paper and food contain carbon pulled from the atmosphere, and by preventing it from decomposing by excluding oxygen (e.g most landfills) you get carbon sequestration
- teucris 7y agoThat causes anerobic composting which turns the carbon into methane. This is either recaptured and burned or goes into the atmosphere.
- zdragnar 7y agoOnly small amounts of the carbon are converted to methane... enough that capture is worthwhile, but there is certainly a significant portion remaining below ground.
- teucris 7y agoI get the idea but I had learned it wasn’t an effective sequestration method. Do you have references I can check out?