Sentences with phrase «when additional carbon dioxide»

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Frederike Böhm Department of Philosophy, Kiel University I like to follow the concept «reduce — reuse — recycle» when it comes to consumption: borrowing, sharing or buying second - hand are often good alternatives to purchasing new things, the production of which causes additional carbon dioxide emissions and use resources.

An additional benefit for both the community and the rest of the world is that the trees and the soil in their forest contain large quantities of carbon, which bonds with oxygen to form the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide when released into the atmosphere.

When ethanol diverts the already - growing maize to biofuels to run the automobiles, those maize fields do not absorb any additional carbon, and the automobiles still emit roughly the same quantity of carbon dioxide.