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Plastics! Zero-carbon plastics would be great. Pull CO2 from the air, mix with water and wind/solar elec and product bags, phones etc!
by berbec 7y ago
Plastics! Zero-carbon plastics would be great. Pull CO2 from the air, mix with water and wind/solar elec and product bags, phones etc!
- icebraining 7y agoThe thought is kind of horrifying, but you could even make it a closed process - send your old phone to the factory, where it's burned to produce the plastics for your new phone.
- mrguyorama 7y agoThat would open up a pretty good avenue for "recycling" then, and could possibly reduce waste plastic in the environment
- codethief 7y agoAs I learned today in another thread [1], the only problem would be that plastic is usually doped with additional elements that I assume we would somehow have to deal with when burning it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845427
- stordoff 7y agoWhy is this horrifying? Is there some part of this I'm missing here?
- icebraining 7y agoIt just feels wrong to burn this stuff as part of an established cycle.
- buss 7y agoAbsolutely. A friend of mine founded a company to produce carbon-net-zero biodegradable plastics. Their seed round went well, and making great progress, and are currently raising a series A. If anyone's interested in learning more, email me steven.buss@gmail.com.