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So, instead of burying the carbon (or just not incentivizing its production), your company burns the plastic into the atmosphere?
by jsprogrammer 12y ago
So, instead of burying the carbon (or just not incentivizing its production), your company burns the plastic into the atmosphere?
- Dylan16807 12y agoIs the little bit of carbon in the plastic anywhere close to the biggest issue here? Lookup up the carbon offset price gives me under $20 per ton.
- jsprogrammer 12y agoWhat is the bigger issue? I did imply that not purchasing the carbon (and therefore, not incentivizing its extraction) would be better than burning it (and whatever other pollutants are created by the combustion of K-cups, or equivalent) into the atmosphere. My lungs don't really care about your 'carbon offset price' denominated in US dollars.
- Dylan16807 12y agoYour lungs don't care about carbon either. When I hear about things getting incinerated I worry about all the potential toxic chemicals, and what is done with the residue. Producing carbon dioxide and water is the ideal outcome. I bring up the carbon price because they could pay next to nothing and leave the atmosphere with less carbon in it. That's not the hard part. The hard part is making sure we're not spilling ugly chemicals all over the environment, whether that's though burial or burning.
- bane 12y agoYeah, it seems weird considering all the rest of the focus on other environmental friendly policies.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoTrash incinerators run under strict scrubbing regulations.