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Producing plant waste is actually a form of carbon fixation, provided
you compost them and then return them to the land. If plant waste is
going to landfill, and the government is simply trying to reduce the
volume of "stuff" it has to deal with regardless of what they are, then
they have lost sight of the wood for the trees.

On the contrary - composting produces methane, and that is many times as
potent as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. But...

In the long run the methane is oxidised to carbon dioxide. Composting
releases less carbon into the atmosphere than burning plant waste..
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Stewart Robert Hinsley