Plastic is sequestered carbon

Unfortunately, not sequestered from the atmosphere.

The plan is to create a variety of useful products for sequestered carbon. What is missing is the ability to reform plastic. What happened?

Look from FastCompany::

In a workshop in downtown Chang Mai, Thailand, designers turn plastic trash–mostly plastic bags they collect from the street–into marble-like coasters and tabletops. In a maker space in Lviv, Ukraine, designers use DIY equipment hacked from old industrial parts and a shopping cart to recycle plastic trash into bowls. In Seoul, designers use a mobile plastic recycling cart for education.

The mag reports on a vendor selling complete workshop level recycling and re-forming systems.  If bottle makers and post recyclers could agree on plastic qualities, colors, then the workshops become more efficient, scale up. The plastics become construction materials for longer sequestering. Watch this space. See if this scales up to wall or floor or other tiles for construction.

When we solve the solar+co2-> hydrocarbon issue, then carbon based plastics from the atmosphere is a major component of co2 control. It can be reused for very long periods as construction materials. Until then, what is the  Green solution here? Dunno, seems a bit complex, it does take energy to process all the plastic, but it can be wind or solar; it is not schedule dependent. Massive wind powered plastic recyclering in Texas, generate laminate floor and wall and roof tiles. If we solve the equation, Texas becomes a major biofuel supplier.

But then we are stuck with ice age man. He says, drill, drill, drill; ice age man wants the magma flow controlled in massive geothermal wells. And to start, we need to drill down and find out, more closely, what is going on down there. This is all a wasted if a Cascade volcano does the cooling for us.