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Plastic is made from oil, so at best it could be carbon neutral (assuming all energy used to process and recycle it is carbon neutral).
by _Algernon_ 4y ago
Plastic is made from oil, so at best it could be carbon neutral (assuming all energy used to process and recycle it is carbon neutral).
- bryanlarsen 4y agoPlastic can be made from bio-oil or from synthesized hydro carbons.
- _Algernon_ 4y agoNot in this economy
- bryanlarsen 4y agoIn an optimal economy it would be. Climate change will cause many tens of trillions of dollars in damages and/or mitigations. Halting climate change would cost < $10T. A world that was spending $10T to stop climate change would be incentivizing carbon capture, among many other things. It would also disincentivize oil production. If you were paid substantial money to store atmospheric carbon and oil was really expensive, then turning atmospheric carbon into stable plastic could be highly profitable.