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Letter: Plenty of space for carbon storage in everyday life

Published 1 October 2025

From Martin van Raay, Culemborg, The Netherlands

Fortunately, there are more ways to store carbon dioxide than just underground. Trees and other plants also store it and when we use them to, say, build high-rise buildings or furniture, or make car parts (flax and hemp can be used in door panels and dashboards), we store CO2 for years, and possibly for centuries in some cases. By turning CO2 into useful products, capturing it will become profitable, not just necessary(13 September, p 10).

Issue no. 3563 published 4 October 2025

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