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Re:Turning Plastic to Oil, U.K. Startup Sees Money in Saving... by dotancohen on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @09:49AM (#14308125)
In fact, having the carbon stored in the garbage patch is better for the environment (and the organisms that depend on a stable environment) than burning it and releasing it into the atmosphere.
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Re:Turning Plastic to Oil, U.K. Startup Sees Money in Saving... by technofiend on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @10:49AM (#14308618)
You don't want to burn and release, that's true, but you also don't want the plastic in the food chain. So you need some sort of way to compress and store the co2 until it can be sequestered.
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Re:Turning Plastic to Oil, U.K. Startup Sees Money in Saving... by chicob on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:41PM (#14317968)
Perhaps making plastic waste ingots when the recyclability is too low to be profitable and then burying large volumes of plastic this way.
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