▲ 1287 ▼ This Plastic Mr. Fantastic (mander.xyz) submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 99 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children) wait what!?!! fuck. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tempest@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (3 children) Cardboard is recyclable so long as you don't print on it and it's the brown corrugated stuff. Which is a big ask. Most of it doesn't get recycled into more boxes though. Think like those cup holders you get at a take out place. The other thing is trees area renewable resource in theory but we use a lot of fossil fuels to harvest and process then. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children) sometimes I wonder what would happen if we were to send all carbon based waste (plastic, food, cardboard, paper...) to the Artic/Antarctic. make a giant landfill where it is too cold for it to decompose into methane, and it will actively sequester carbon, as replaced carbon and other organic items sequester carbon. We're already shipping all our garbage halfway across the world, permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) You would put twice the carbon into the atmosphere by burning the fuel to get it there. Ok, probably not twice ... but you get the idea. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago we send it halfway across the world, to burn/recycle to low quality, send back, use, discard, send back across the world to burn/repeat. honestly with that system, it's hard to think of a worse system. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (3 children) Cardboard is recyclable so long as you don't print on it and it's the brown corrugated stuff. Which is a big ask. Most of it doesn't get recycled into more boxes though. Think like those cup holders you get at a take out place. The other thing is trees area renewable resource in theory but we use a lot of fossil fuels to harvest and process then. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children) sometimes I wonder what would happen if we were to send all carbon based waste (plastic, food, cardboard, paper...) to the Artic/Antarctic. make a giant landfill where it is too cold for it to decompose into methane, and it will actively sequester carbon, as replaced carbon and other organic items sequester carbon. We're already shipping all our garbage halfway across the world, permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) You would put twice the carbon into the atmosphere by burning the fuel to get it there. Ok, probably not twice ... but you get the idea. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago we send it halfway across the world, to burn/recycle to low quality, send back, use, discard, send back across the world to burn/repeat. honestly with that system, it's hard to think of a worse system. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children) sometimes I wonder what would happen if we were to send all carbon based waste (plastic, food, cardboard, paper...) to the Artic/Antarctic. make a giant landfill where it is too cold for it to decompose into methane, and it will actively sequester carbon, as replaced carbon and other organic items sequester carbon. We're already shipping all our garbage halfway across the world, permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) You would put twice the carbon into the atmosphere by burning the fuel to get it there. Ok, probably not twice ... but you get the idea. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago we send it halfway across the world, to burn/recycle to low quality, send back, use, discard, send back across the world to burn/repeat. honestly with that system, it's hard to think of a worse system. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) You would put twice the carbon into the atmosphere by burning the fuel to get it there. Ok, probably not twice ... but you get the idea. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago we send it halfway across the world, to burn/recycle to low quality, send back, use, discard, send back across the world to burn/repeat. honestly with that system, it's hard to think of a worse system. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago we send it halfway across the world, to burn/recycle to low quality, send back, use, discard, send back across the world to burn/repeat. honestly with that system, it's hard to think of a worse system. permalink fedilink source parent
