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Does plastic production necessarily emit co2?

• nordsieck 6y ago
  > Does plastic production necessarily emit co2? I don't think so. But it currently uses petroleum/natural gas as feedstock.
  • redtexture 6y ago
    Energy is required to produce anything, thus consuming and producing CO2.
    • aaronblohowiak 6y ago
      Well that energy could be from renewable — we can continue the plastic age into the zero carbon emission age.
  • aaronblohowiak 6y ago
    So I don’t think that is actually a problem wrt climate change. Then it is more comparable to other mined minerals.