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Skateboards don't stay skateboards forever. Eventually they'll be thrown out, where they'll degrade & eventually decompose, re-releasing the stored CO2.
by kingbirdy 7y ago
Skateboards don't stay skateboards forever. Eventually they'll be thrown out, where they'll degrade & eventually decompose, re-releasing the stored CO2.
- ralusek 7y agoMostly into the ground, no? Isn't that how petroleum was formed in the first place?
- kingbirdy 7y agoIt depends entirely on where the skateboards and other wood-derived waste ends up. If it's not properly disposed of (e.g. litter), then it will release most/all of it into the atmosphere. If it's incinerated, it's all released. If it's in a landfill, it depends on whether and how effectively the landfill is sealed.
- fucking_tragedy 7y agoProbably not. Most of the oil we find comes from a period when very few organisms could break down waste from dead trees and plants.
- finnh 7y agoTrue, but my model of CO2 is that its damage is proportional to the area under the curve (quanity CO2 * time in atmosphere). So deferring that C02 release by 10 years is strictly a win, b/c you haven't incurred the climate effects of that C02 for those 10 years.