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Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by ksdale on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:23PM (#25295213)
Tractors, combines, trucks - there's a lot of heavy equipment that gets used to grow corn, and then there's emissions related to both producing and applying fertilizers.
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Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by njarboe on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:58PM (#25297212)
There's the old quip that corn is just one small step in the chain of converting oil into something people can eat.
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