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Carbon dioxide is biologically recycled. Plants make sugar with it, by means of photosynthesis, and then animals may eat that plant or the part of the plant that contains the sugar, and they metabolize the sugar and produce carbon dioxide as a waste product, which gets exhaled into the air. Plants can then absorb that same carbon dioxide molecule from the air, and use it to make sugar again. There is no limit to the number of times that this can be repeated.

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