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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks agosometimes 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.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.