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Even shorter life products like wooden furniture should be preferable to plastic alternatives. Especially with the disposable way we treat the plastic products,
by undersuit 3y ago
Even shorter life products like wooden furniture should be preferable to plastic alternatives. Especially with the disposable way we treat the plastic products, at least if we're throwing away wood furniture we're not pumping up oil to make it first.
- abfan1127 3y agothrowing away wood products creates methane release from landfills. Those wood products need to be ground up and placed deep underground.
- undersuit 3y agoThrowing away the plastic products is just a longer process of decomposition, but I agree that wood products should be disposed of properly.
- Reason077 3y agoIn many parts of the world, non-recycled plastic waste is incinerated rather than landfilled. In Europe, incineration has grown steadily in recent years and more household waste is now incinerated than landfilled.
- undersuit 3y agoAnd that's not good for CO2 levels. We can't be pumping crude oil up, using some of the latent energy to convert the product into a lawn chair for a few years, and then burning it. At that point you might as well burn your wooden furniture instead.
- Symmetry 3y agoMany landfills these days will capture the methane and sell it, at least in the developed world. So it can displace new methane entering the biosphere from wells.