Dead Plants and carbon

Hi. I am wondering if, when plants die or when a garden is left to waste, the carbon the plants previously stored is just released, harmfully, into the atmosphere? And if so, how this might be prevented.

 

@SimonZ
No not just released harmfully. More a case of recycled mainly as carbon dioxide that is taken up by other plants. Some goes into the soil as organic matter that is good for soil texture, water retention and holding nutrients, but almost none of this is taken up by plants.
The only way to stop dead plants from turning into carbon dioxide is to make them into coal or peat.
It is the burning of oil, coal and gas that results in harmful amounts of carbon dioxide being released.

 

Making wine from fruits and vegetables (including additional bought sugar as required) locks up a massive 0.5 Kg of CO2 per gallon of homebrew.

So producing loads of homebrewed wine and leaving to mature will lock up loads of CO2! (for several years if making slow maturing wines).

 

@Scrungee

Your homebrew produces 1000kg of methane per glass after ingestion. The release of posterior emissions leaves a carbon footprint that Donald Trump would be proud of

 

1000kg of methane works out to be about 1.4 million cubic meters. On that basis Scrungee could easily be plumbed into the gas distribution grid and power the whole country on a bottle of homebrew a week.