Five Fixes for Carbon Cleanup

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Sign up for our free newsletters 5 Fixes for Carbon Cleanup To have any chance of not busting through 2°C of global warming, we need to permanently remove from the atmosphere much of the carbon that we have already put in. Planting trees—the current strategy—is a good idea for many reasons, but it fails the permanency test. So how are we going to suck carbon dioxide out of the air? And who’s going to pay for it? Here are five routes forward. Chemists turn plastic waste into carbon capture material Researchers have developed a new chemical process that transforms discarded PET bottles into an efficient, durable carbon-capture sorbent—tackling both plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions at once.