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		Cthulhu_ on Jan 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dutch designer drives his car on the plastic waste... I want to believe landfills of plastic are a form of carbon sequestering, but that depends entirely on whether anything leeches out of it over time into ground water.

tsimionescu on Jan 14, 2024 [–]

Even if it does leech, the carbon emissions are at least significantly slowed down compared to directly burning the plastic.

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