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It's not better than burning it in a facility that captures the energy, even more so if that energy is displacing fossil fuels from electric or home heating gri
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
It's not better than burning it in a facility that captures the energy, even more so if that energy is displacing fossil fuels from electric or home heating grids.
- soco 3y agoBut isn't burning it releasing again the CO2, and sequestrating this was the point of the exercise in the first place?
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoWe care about CO2 equivalent, so anything that leaks methane is a candidate for being burned instead to reduce impact. And plastic leaks methane from dumps.
- Retric 3y agoOrders of magnitude make a huge difference. Sequestering 99.9% of carbon and releasing 0.1% of it as methane is a major win.
- Retric 3y agoPlastic in trash is a fossil fuel. The carbon comes from oil the same way gasoline does.