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Re:Microbes in cow stomachs may help our plastic problem by whoopdedo on Sunday July 04, 2021 @03:21PM (#27731948)
What are the byproducts of this process? We already know that cows are emitting a concerning amount of methane into the atmosphere. If the result of this is releasing all the fossilized carbon captured by the plastic, then we'll be solving the plastic pollution problem by greatly worsening the greenhouse gas problem.
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Re:Microbes in cow stomachs may help our plastic problem by mschuster91 on Monday July 05, 2021 @04:46AM (#27735820)
Not necessarily - you're not feeding the plastic waste to cows. You take the microbes and dump them and the plastic waste into vats. This allows you (similarly to existing biogas plants!) to capture gaseous byproducts of the plastic digestion.
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Re:Microbes in cow stomachs may help our plastic problem by kolinko on Monday July 05, 2021 @04:45AM (#27735811)
My first thought exactly. It’s way better to have that plastic on landfills than - as methane or co2 - in atmosphere.
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