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Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen . . .at scale.
(www.anthropocenemagazine.org)
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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Better than letting the plastic pile up.
But the C doesn't disappear.
According to the original paper, the C goes into "value-added organics such as formate, acetate, glycolate and glycolaldehyde dimer."
So specifically not carbon dioxide, which is the problem gas.
It's still in the world, instead of in a hole in the ground, and will go CO² the next opportunity.
This is the problem with oil; no matter what steps you do inbetween (be it fuel or plastic, or recycling/processing the plastic), it will still accelerate climate warming in the end.
Oh noes not the C!
What is "the C"? In this context
Carbon. The stuff that prefers to be in a gaseous & bound form to do heat house effect, which we take out of the ground where it got to in times with significant warmer global climate.