Securing plastic out of industry and out of the environment
585g of plastic sequestered into an ecobrick. - Ecobrick and photo by Aang Hudaya, Bogor, Indonesia.
Plastic sequestration is a means of plastic waste management that secures used plastic out of industry and out of the environment into reusable building blocks made by manual compaction. Plastic sequestration is motivated by environmental protection and modeled on the Earth's process of carbon sequestration.[1] Emerging out of the struggle of towns and communities in the Global South[2] to deal with plastic pollution, plastic sequestration compaction methods are characterized by being locally based, non-capital, non-industrial and low-tech.[3] Plastic sequestration is defined by the goals of securing plastic out of the environment and out of high energy/carbon industrial systems.[4] Based on eliminating the chemical and physical and abiotic and biotic degradation pathways,[5] plastic sequestration aims to achieve these goals, by terminally reducing the net surface area of thin film plastics. The building blocks that emerge from plastic sequestration are used in applications that further protect from degradation and permanently keep plastic out of industrial processes, thereby preventing their carbon emissions.[6]
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