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Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen . . .at scale.
(www.anthropocenemagazine.org)
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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.