{"id":190,"date":"2009-12-29T17:24:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T06:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=190"},"modified":"2010-01-03T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:03:34","slug":"junk-mail-carbon-sequestration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"junk mail carbon sequestration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Christmas has passed for another year. Has it helped the climate? Well, perhaps it has: in the 8 weeks prior to Christmas we received over 6kg of junk mail. Here is our weekly allotment:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/JunkMailGraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"JunkMailGraph\" width=\"552\" height=\"461\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploaddir\/2009\/12\/JunkMailGraph.jpg 552w, https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploaddir\/2009\/12\/JunkMailGraph-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><br \/>\nHow has this helped the climate? Well, assuming that most of the junk mail is paper, and most of the paper is cellulose (i.e. (C<sub>6<\/sub>H<sub>10<\/sub>O<sub>5<\/sub>)<sub>n<\/sub>), then we could suppose that the junk mail is about 40% carbon. So our junk mail before Christmas amounted to about 2.4kg of carbon. Now in Sydney there are over 1.5 million households. Now if each of those averaged the same, that&#8217;s 3,600 tonnes of carbon safely stored away in junk mail ;-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Christmas has passed for another year. Has it helped the climate? Well, perhaps it has: in the 8 weeks prior to Christmas we received over 6kg of junk mail. Here is our weekly allotment: How has this helped the climate? Well, assuming that most of the junk mail is paper, and most of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}