Has anyone ever measured how much CO2 is locked away every year by landfill trash , ie newspapers?



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Has anyone ever measured how much CO2 is locked away every year by landfill trash , ie newspapers?

It seems that this is the easiest way to take CO2 out of the atmosphere and can be sustained fairly easily with fast growing trees. I Realize this doesn't sound eco-friendly but just a thought, it seems we are already creating future hydrocarbon deposits, geologically speaking.

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Since no one else has bothered to answer your question yet, I thought I would take a stab at it. Not that my information will be precise, but may be it will shed some light on how to quantify what would need to be done to show if this is feasible.

Based on the total coal, oil, natural gas, and any other carbon based fuel burned in a year, you must know the total amount in pounds and then know the percent of carbon in each type. Then, you could calculate the amount of carbon that would need to be buried. Trees, I believe are approx. 50% carbon, when completely dry, so approx. 2 pounds of dried wood per pound of carbon. The next problem is efficiently burying this material deep enough that the carbon is truly sequestered. Otherwise, the product will break down into CO2, methane, and other products that will escape and would negate the benefits. In fact, I would think that you would have to account for some of that happening.

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