By Paul Homewood
You could not make it up!
A carbon offset company has come up with a bizarre way to allay ‘green guilt’ – it charges people to bury bags of charcoal at the bottom of a quarry.
Those wanting to offset carbon emissions, such as from a plane trip or car journey, can pay for the equivalent amount of charcoal to be stored safely underground.
The company, Solid Carbon Storage, claims to be taking carbon dioxide (CO2) ‘out of the carbon cycle’ by converting dead trees and plants into charcoal.
But most of the charcoal it uses is imported from Namibia in southern Africa. And an expert who supports using charcoal to combat climate change said burying it in a quarry is ‘a bit of a waste’.
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August 30, 2019 at 04:12AM
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