![]() I think this depends on properly sealing landfills and arranging extraction infrastructure.Īnother idea would be to curb methane generation or decomposition somehow. Some of the material will remain undecomposed (or take a really long time) so it is a net carbon sink. Some landfills capture the released methane and burn it (to avoid atmospheric pollution), which seems like a decent solution (even more with power generation). Good question, I believe it depends on the landfill?īacteria probably need the right conditions to efficiently break down materials, cellulose is quite tough. We have wasted substantial energy and time on something that never worked and helped destroy the environment even more because of it. All for a giant lie about recycling that was never true. ![]() The triple whammy to all this is that all over the planet people have been cleaning their plastics with hot water, drying and then separating it into different rubbish bags with separate collections and additional bins etc. This also ignores the fact that huge amounts of the plastic used isn't actually recyclable at all. When you compare that to the thousands of reuses of glass bottles we used to do for milk it is really apparent how awful the plastic process is, its barely better than just throw away. Given that plastic at best gets 1.3 uses, the initial one and then a third of that material can go into a recycled container. The polymers that make up the plastic simply aren't capable of reforming over and over. If there is too much recycled material in the mix it doesn't flow into the mold correctly and one third is the most you could possibly use and then that product can not be recycled again. Something I watched and read about last year was that injection molding of plastic can be done only when one third or less of the pellets are recycled.
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