A cement factory emits 900 kilograms of CO2 to produce 1,000 kilograms of cement. A fully grown tree removes six kilograms of CO2 per day from the air. One acre of land can support 200 mature trees. A company builds a factory that will produce 100,000 kilograms of cement. To make the factory carbon neutral, the owners need to grow trees over an area of land measuring acres.

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Belen Pugh

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A cement factory emits 900 kilograms of CO2 to produce 1,000 kilograms of cement. A fully grown tree removes six kilograms of CO2 per day from the air. One acre of land can support 200 mature trees. A company builds a factory that will produce 100,000 kilograms of cement. To make the factory carbon neutral, the owners need to grow trees over an area of land measuring acres.

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Jacquelyn Cross · Answer 1

Using the relations:

900 kg CO2 = 1000 kg Cement

1 tree = 6 kg CO2

1 acre = 200 trees

Given:

100000 kg Cement, how many acres of land should owners have to counteract the emission?

100000 kg Cement = 90000 kg CO2 = 15000 trees = 75 acres of land

Therefore, the owners should have 75 acres of land filled with trees to counteract the CO2 emission.