Zara launched a line of dresses made partially from waste CO2. More companies are using waste CO2 to make new products.
is used to make soda fizzy, keep foods frozen and convert ammonia to urea for fertilizer. What’s new is the focus on making products with COas a strategy to slow climate change. Today’s CCU market, estimated at $2 billion, could mushroom to $550 billion by 2040, according to Lux Research, a Boston-based market research firm.
Plastics are made from fossil fuels, a mix of hydrocarbons formed by the remains of ancient organisms. Most plastics are produced by refining crude oil, which is then broken down into smaller molecules through a process called cracking. These smaller molecules, known as monomers, are the building blocks of polymers. Monomers such as ethylene, propylene, styrene and others are linked together to form plastics such as polyethylene , polypropylene and polystyrene .
Yes, says Sick. First, he argues, cap the oil wells. Next, make plastics from aboveground carbon. Today, there are products made of 20 to over 40 percent CO. Finally, he says, build a circular economy, one that reduces resource use, reuses products, then recycles them into other new products. “Not only can we eliminate the fossil carbon as a source so that we don’t add to the aboveground carbon budget, but in the process we can also rethinkwe make plastics,” Sick says. He suggests they be specifically designed “to live very, very long so that they don’t have to be replaced … or that they decompose in a benign manner.”needs to be extracted, from the atmosphere or smokestacks, for example, using specialized equipment.
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