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Imagine bacteria and fungi breaking down all the plastic into CO2. Don't know which is lesser evil: plastic as it remaining in the environment or more CO2 but l
by dilawar 2y ago
Imagine bacteria and fungi breaking down all the plastic into CO2. Don't know which is lesser evil: plastic as it remaining in the environment or more CO2 but less plastic?
- Ma8ee 2y agoCompared to the amount of CO2 we add to the atmosphere continuously (still!), I’m quite sure that the CO2 from all the plastic in the ocean is insignificant. edit: just to make sure that my guess wasn't too far off, I looked up some numbers: we relase about 8 million tons of plastic into the ocean every year. Burning 1 units of plastic produces 3 units of CO2, giving 24 million tons of CO2 if all that plastic were broken down by fungus (or incinerated). We release around 35 billion tons of CO2 every year from burning fossil fuel.
- webprofusion 2y agoSo don't release it directly to the atmosphere, it has industrial uses. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435117300223 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...
- gitaarik 2y ago[flagged]
- scrollaway 2y agoThe O in CO2 is for Oxygen, it’s not a zero. I get the sensation you might not know what you’re talking about if you don’t know such a basic thing.