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,
tempest@lemmy.ca 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 months ago
we send it halfway across the world, to burn/recycle to low quality, send back, use, discard, send back across the world to burn/repeat.
honestly with that system, it’s hard to think of a worse system.