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Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Wait until OP hears about the evils of cardboard recycling, I drive by daily and see the towering eternal flame of methane. Sadly methane is sneaky and not all of it gets burned.
Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic
Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Wait until OP hears about the evils of cardboard recycling, I drive by daily and see the towering eternal flame of methane. Sadly methane is sneaky and not all of it gets burned.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
wait what!?!!
fuck.
tempest@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Cardboard is recyclable so long as you don’t print on it and it’s the brown corrugated stuff. Which is a big ask.
Most of it doesn’t get recycled into more boxes though. Think like those cup holders you get at a take out place.
The other thing is trees area renewable resource in theory but we use a lot of fossil fuels to harvest and process then.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
sometimes I wonder what would happen if we were to send all carbon based waste (plastic, food, cardboard, paper…) to the Artic/Antarctic.
make a giant landfill where it is too cold for it to decompose into methane, and it will actively sequester carbon, as replaced carbon and other organic items sequester carbon.
We’re already shipping all our garbage halfway across the world,
Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You would put twice the carbon into the atmosphere by burning the fuel to get it there.
Ok, probably not twice … but you get the idea.