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Tech companies want to capture carbon at paper mills and sewage plants

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Google, Salesforce , H&M and other brands have joined an $80 million plan to take CO2 out of the atmosphere.

They're paying $32.1 million to a startup called CREW that aims to trap carbon dioxide emissions produced at wastewater treatment facilities.

$48 million will go to another startup called CO280 that retrofits pulp and paper mills with controversial carbon capture technologies.