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Tech companies want to capture carbon at paper mills and sewage plants
Brands are seeking new ways to counteract the harmful effects of their pollution.
“We do need to be looking at a lot of different kinds of approaches,” says Wil Burns co-director of the Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal at American University, who is also part of an assessment committee for Frontier. These kinds of devices have been added to industrial facilities and power plants in the past, and can collect CO2 that companies might then shoot back into the ground to push out hard-to-reach oil reserves. CO280 takes a different approach by adding carbon capture devices to facilities that burn “black liquor,” a bi-product from pulp manufacturing that’s used to generate heat and power.
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