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And verily, didst Scott Lurndal hastily babble thusly:
> spike1@freenet.co.uk writes:
>
>>If you grow a forest specifically to be harvested and turned into paper,
>>constantly planting new trees as mature ones are shopped down, NEW paper is
>>greener. Trees stop absorbing CO2 once they mature, all the CO2 they take up
>>goes into growth, that wood is made of CO2 and water and little else.
>>
>>So new paper is a VERY good carbon sink, unless it's burned.
>
> This assumes that the paper stays in paper form forever. Once it
> is landfilled it will decompose releasing the CO2/Methane back into the
> atmosphere, abeit a bit more slowly than burning would have; not to
> mention all the bits of the tree that aren't used in making paper, which
> also is burned or will decompose in a geologically short period of time.
Ah, but does paper rot down significantly quickly? wood takes a while
normally and if it's been treated it can take years. Wouldn't be surprised
if, in a few million years, the landfills we have now have become the new
coal seams.
:)
Still doesn't counter the carbon sink argument though, even if a few
branches get burned and most of the paper rots slowly, it's still carbon not
in the atmosphere before it rots.
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