It’s in quotes because the “carbon footprint” is a bs metric to begin with.
The point is that spending energy on something that won’t be used to do something useful, is spending energy on nothing, and therefore a waste of energy.
It would have been better to send the material into a landfill sooner, because delaying it just cost more resources for no benefit.
It’s in quotes because the “carbon footprint” is a bs metric to begin with.
The point is that spending energy on something that won’t be used to do something useful, is spending energy on nothing, and therefore a waste of energy.
It would have been better to send the material into a landfill sooner, because delaying it just cost more resources for no benefit.