Topic summary
Carbon capture and utilization
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Carbon capture and storage.
Terminology
Around 1% of captured CO2 is used as a feedstock for making products such as fertilizer, fuels, and plastics. These uses are forms of carbon capture and utilization. In some cases, the product durably stores the carbon from the CO2 and thus is also considered to be a form of CCS. To qualify as CCS, carbon storage must be long-term, therefore using CO2 to produce fertilizer, fuel, or chemicals is not CCS because these products release CO2 when burned or consumed.