> Burning trash produces CO2 and that needs to be factored in.
My understanding is that waste incineration includes co2 scrubbers to capture co2 so it isn’t released into the atmosphere.
My understanding is that waste incineration includes co2 scrubbers to capture co2 so it isn’t released into the atmosphere.
The only way to sequester it is to inject into underground reservoirs, but that requires a very specific geology which very few places have.
You can liquefy it and sell it... but then it's typically going to get released to the atmosphere by the purchaser, not sequestered.
I am not an expert in waste incineration (although I am an expert in carbon capture processes) but I seriously doubt that they use CO2 scrubbers. Scrubbers for other nasty molecules like SO2, sure, but the CO2 is probably just sent out into the atmosphere.