CHARLOTTE, N.C. — New technology is allowing massive companies to fight climate change in an affordable and sustainable way, and hometown carrier American Airlines is joining the race.
The airline is now looking at using sawdust to help remove carbon from the atmosphere.
The Wall Street Journal reports American Airlines is working to help offset the amount of carbon it emits by working toward buying credits from a startup that uses bricks of carbon-absorbing plant material.
It's all done by a company called Graphyte.
The company takes agricultural waste products like sawdust or tree bark and compresses them into a brick that can naturally absorb carbon.
Those bricks then get buried in the ground and lock away carbon from getting into the atmosphere.
This process costs a fraction of the price companies are paying for most carbon removal technology now.
Experts hope this technology will help remove the billions of tons of carbon needed to slow global warming.
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