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Re:‘Biodegradable’ drinking straws contain PFAS by upwardbound on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:39PM (#31242011)
I agree but the same logic applies to "remove oil from the ground, burn it, capture the carbon from the smoke using expensive equipment, then bury the smoke" which describes all major carbon sequestration plans if I understand correctly.

I think that both forms of sequestration (sequestering gaseous CO2 (or a solid-stabilized form of it) vs sequestering plastic) are worse than not drilling the oil to begin with, but better than letting the CO2 end up in the air.

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Re:‘Biodegradable’ drinking straws contain PFAS by Syonyk on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:44PM (#31242059)
Climeworks is doing some work with atmospheric capture and sequestration in basalt via underground water injection (I believe they site with hydroelectric plants which gives them the reinjection well infrastructure mostly for free).

You can do the same thing by grinding basalt and spreading it on fields, which... given that I live on a pile of basalt, might be useful eventually. I keep collecting the stuff to make a greenhouse with, though.

It may be better than leaving it in the air, but given all the other biological activity of plastic, I'd really rather we not use the stuff in the first place at this point.

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