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Now just do it with plastic! Isn't this just the same thing that happens with sewage plants. In the anaerobic digester before the bardenpho phase?
by gonzo41 3y ago
Now just do it with plastic!
Isn't this just the same thing that happens with sewage plants. In the anaerobic digester before the bardenpho phase?
- rcme 3y agoWhy would you want to do this with plastic? Food decomposes into methane and CO2. Methane is bad from a climate change perspective. If you can convert food to purely CO2, then you can improve greenhouse gas emissions. It’s even better if you can capture the CO2. Plastic, on the other hand, does not readily decompose into CO2. If you were to put it through a process that decomposes it, you would make greenhouse gas emissions worse.
- burnished 3y agoBecause the ocean is filled with it and the way it degrades causes it to become very small and ingested by sea creatures and concentrate up the food chain with deleterious effects for all involved.
- arrosenberg 3y agoPlastic requires specific bacteria that can digest it. Still pretty early days for that. It would be easier to reduce plastic to biochar at 1000C and bury it in farm fields or underground.