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You may have heard that, raised properly, grass-fed beef doesn’t hurt the climate. That’s a convenient lie: a recent lifecycle analysis of the carbon impact of grass-fed beef revealed that cows who are pastured for their entire lives emit 50% more greenhouse gasses than their less well treated colleagues trapped in Concentrated Animal Feed Operations.
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It turns out that removing CO2 from the smokestack of a coal fired power plant and then burying it under ground in a process called Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) is the most costly, least efficient way to interdict carbon before it hits the atmosphere.
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In the U.S., only a fifth of the aluminum we toss each year is recycled, according to the report Stop Trashing the Climate. (pdf) Paper isn’t much better – we’re only recycling about half of all our newspapers, boxes, magazines and paperboard.

If you’re a regular reader of Change.org, however, you’re probably already doing your best to recycle aluminum, paper and glass, all of which require large amount of energy – and therefore greenhouse gasses – to produce. (Together, the production of all three of these materials accounts for a third of annual U.S. CO2 emissions.)

But what you might not realize is that, like most households in America, every day you’re failing to recycle a kind of waste whose trip to the landfill is tremendously damaging to the climate: food.
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