• @School_Lunch
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    311 months ago

    I’ve always wondered how big an impact burying all grass clippings would have… I assume very little since I’ve never heard it mentioned before.

    • zout
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      511 months ago

      You would have to bury them really deep to prevent them from being converted fully back to CO2, or worse methane, by other organisms.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        Not to mention, all the nutrients that would normally be returned by their decomposition will never return back into the ecosystem.

        • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
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          111 months ago

          We have a simple biologocial solution for all of that. Peatlands. They transfer the carbon into more and more stable chemical compounds that end up being sequestered. All the coal that is extracted now used to be peat some hundred million years ago.

    • themeatbridge
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      411 months ago

      Just leaving them on the ground allows them to decompose naturally. A better option is to not cut your grass, or have a native groundcover lawn.