Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)

Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by X6S1x6Okd1st on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:28PM (#25291593)

There is also a land cost. I'd be surprised if we determined that plastic is better than bio-plastic, but until we are making bio-plastic with a low land footprint land will continue to be a factor here.

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Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by Loughla on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:06PM (#25292206)

This might be a really stupid question, but how does land factor into carbon emission?

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Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by frettchen on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:08PM (#25293080)

I think the issue isn't emissions in that case but a "amount of land space necessary for landfills for traditional plastic" vs. "amount of land space necessary for plant growth for bioplastic."

If the bioplastic growth land takes up more space by a certain amount than is used to dispose of regular plastic, that's presents its own set of issues.

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