Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t Take It
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#2Make hills, heat homes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjido
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#4This is a source of anxiety for me lately. We use plastic everywhere and yet seem to not know what to do with it. Plastic is cheap they say, but would plastic be so cheap if we had to factor in the price of recycling it or at least handling its after life? Would it be realistic to ask to think about what to do with wastes of the products sold?
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#5This is a source of anxiety for me lately. We use plastic everywhere and yet seem to not know what to do with it. Plastic is cheap they say, but would plastic be so cheap if we had to factor in the price of recycling it or at least handling its after life? Would it be realistic to ask to think about what to do with wastes of the products sold?
Full lifecycle cost... That would make an interesting website.
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#6Make hills, heat homes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjido
Yes. When did we start thinking that there is something wrong with the landfill. A properly managed landfill is a perfectly responsible way to dispose of plastic. Get the oil from the ground, make it into useful things, then put it back when we're done.
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#7Make hills, heat homes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjido
Export it to Sweden https://www.trtworld.com/europe/swedish-recycling-so-success...
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#8This is a source of anxiety for me lately. We use plastic everywhere and yet seem to not know what to do with it. Plastic is cheap they say, but would plastic be so cheap if we had to factor in the price of recycling it or at least handling its after life? Would it be realistic to ask to think about what to do with wastes of the products sold?
The cost of landfill is really low, so it wouldn’t make any difference if it were added to the cost of plastic.
The world has a lot of important environmental problems, like climate change. Landfill space is not an important environmental problem. You should spend your worrying energy on something else.
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#9I'm trying to figure out if it still makes sense to sort out the plastics before burying them. Make dedicated plastic landfills separate from all the other rubbish. Then when we find an efficient way to reuse it we will know where in the ground a ton of it is rather than having to open a mixed rubbish fill land fill then clean and process ALL the garbage to sort the plastic out. Seems to me that presorting before burying is a better use of energy and resources.
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#10Make hills, heat homes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjido
Yes. When did we start thinking that there is something wrong with the landfill. A properly managed landfill is a perfectly responsible way to dispose of plastic. Get the oil from the ground, make it into useful things, then put it back when we're done.
> When did we start thinking that there is something wrong with the landfill.
In the 80s from what I understand, in response to the Mobro 4000 incident: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/01/what-happened-to-90s-e...