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Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ... by Scoundreller on Saturday December 21, 2019 @09:41PM (#21854804)
Plastics takes fossil fuels and sequesters them for a while so we can't/don't release their carbon.

If we made less plastic, would the decrease in gas/oil consumption just be increased in other processes?

Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ... by jdnenej on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:46PM (#21855050)
Oil supply is effectively infinite. By that I mean there is so much available that we will have destroyed the planet before we remove it all. We extract as much as there is a demand for. If you lower the demand then you lower the amount being extracted
Re:Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t ... by electricslpnsld on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:48PM (#21855055)
Shell’s new US-based plant [1] is expected to pump half a million cars worth of CO2 exhaust into the air a year. I haven’t seen any data suggesting that plastics production reduces the net amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/energy-environme...