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The production and operations of the plastics industry can be reorganized in a way that it captures carbon from the atmosphere and returns it to the ground. This re-fossilization could over time reverse the effects of human carbon emissions on the climate. To enable such geo-operations policy action is needed to introduce taxation for fossil carbon inputs and for rewarding carbon capture and refossilization .

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This page is a summary of: Impact pathways: geo-operations for turning plastic waste into carbon capture, Journal of Economic Studies, December 2025, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijopm-05-2025-0401.
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