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Cake day: November 27th, 2024

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  • Alright, let’s see if the make the relevant point.

    Andrew Rollinson, an independent chemical engineering consultant unaffiliated with the Center for Climate Integrity, agreed with the entirety of the report: Chemical recycling “certainly is a fraud,” he said. “It hasn’t gone anywhere in 50 years, it won’t go anywhere in another 50 years, and it won’t go anywhere in 500 years.” He said a follow-up report could flesh out some of the technical reasons for these poor prospects, like what he described as chemical recycling’s very high energy use and vexing contamination issues.

    They do not.

    The relevant point that needs to be clear for everyone is this: plastics, especially those single use plastics, need to be abolished. Their production needs to stop. It doesn’t need to stop after some replacement technology. It needs to stop now.


  • CTRL+F “plant based”

    Ah, they didn’t get into the broader topic of food security.

    The optimal crops for urban agriculture were peas (normal climate), and sugar beet/spinach (nuclear winter); while those optimal for industrial near-urban production were potatoes (normal climate), and wheat/carrots (nuclear winter). Urban agriculture could feed a fifth (20%) of the population. At least 1140 hectares of near-urban cultivation could make up the shortfall. Another 110 hectares of biofuel feedstock like canola (rapeseed) could provide biodiesel to run agricultural machinery without fuel trade. Significantly more cultivated area is needed in nuclear winter scenarios due to reduced yields.

    Plant-based is the default.