Recycled Plastics
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Project Drawdown's Perennial Biomass Production solution promotes the use of perennial grasses and coppiced woody plants for bioenergy feedstock over annual crops like corn. This approach offers several advantages: lower energy inputs compared to annual crops, higher productivity, and the ability to sequester carbon in soils. Perennial crops such as switchgrass, poplar, and willow show promise due to their natural productivity and reduced input requirements. Governments are increasingly supporting these systems for future energy farming. Beyond bioenergy production, these crops can be used for various products including clean cookstoves, paper, insulation, and bioplastics. The analysis focuses on two main types of perennial energy crops: herbaceous crops (mainly giant grasses) and short-rotation coppice (harvesting resprouting woody crops every two to three years).
Impact:
Plastics recycling is limited to nondurable goods such as packaging. Deployed to meet 25 to 57 percent of demand, it could save half a gigaton or more of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by 2050—and mitigate other environmental damage as well.
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