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This is not obviously a good thing. Landfill space is plentiful, and many plastics are quite stable in landfills and lock up their carbon content. But things t
by amluto 4y ago
This is not obviously a good thing. Landfill space is plentiful, and many plastics are quite stable in landfills and lock up their carbon content. But things that decay are likely to emit methane and CO2.
IMO the biggest benefit of compostable materials in food service is that they have a decent chance of eventually degrading to safe materials if they end up outside a landfill.
- lokar 4y agoI’m thinking of the potato utensils, do they emit methane?
- amluto 4y agoI imagine it depends on what happens to them. They’re largely made out of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, in a fairly high energy state. If they turn into microbe food in an aerobic environment, they probably turn into CO2 and H2O. In an anaerobic environment, they could turn into all manner of chemicals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogenesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogenesis