Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic waste

Re:Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic... by Pfhreak on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:14AM (#27191731)

"It's better dumped in a landfill" is miles away from "sequesters carbon".

Pumping oil into a landfill wouldn't be sequestering carbon, so I'm not sure why pumping oil, processing it into plastics, shipping it all over, and then dumping it in a landfill would be.

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Re:Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic... by qPM9l3XJrF on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:21AM (#27191756)

Global warming is an emergency. Ultimately what matters is minimizing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. You could do that by pumping oil into a landfill in a way that it can't be burned (note that it could be burned in its original state, that's why it was extracted for fuel!), or you could do it by taking CO2 out. CO2 is CO2. You should do whichever will reduce atmospheric CO2 most effectively.

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Re:Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic... by flukus on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:57AM (#27191927)

> Ultimately what matters is minimizing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

If that were the only thing that matters then the deepwater horizon oil spill would have been great, but there's much more to protecting the environment than CO2.

> You could do that by pumping oil into a landfill in a way that it can't be burned

It was, it's been their for hundreds of millions of years.

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