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"Trash economy. The abundance of trash. What are we gonna do with it? Are we gonna put it on an island? Are we gonna make it somebody else’s problem? Or are we going to take the initiative, and take this problem by the horns? Trash economy. You use cubes of trash as money. Everybody becomes rich, it’s a gold rush."
tastes
Needs more blockchain
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>you don't have literal square miles of landfills that occupy land Land area is a non-issue. Google says Switzerland produces "80 to 90 million tonnes" of garbage per year. Assuming that garbage has the same density of water, and a landfill is 10 meters deep, a 1 sq mi landfill will last 287 years. Moreover, Wikipedia says Switzerland has 15,940 square miles of land, so that will only take up 0.006% of the country's…
this non-issue happened in a modern landfill near my hometown. They just used a different grade of material and pocketed the difference. The chemicals area leaching now into the groundwater. Any researchers reporting on that are sued. Even police is used for intimidation. Country is Germany.
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I'm super excited for all the plastic in the world and all the devices that we use everyday to rot because we developed a bacteria that eats it and now your iPhone internals have an infection and your phone just disintegrates and the steering wheel falls off your car
Lots of organisms eat wood and cotton. How often does your furniture and clothing just randomly disintegrate? You really cannot imagine a middle ground between these products existing for millions of years vs. your steering wheel falling apart while you're driving?
Quite frequently, if you have moths . Like it used to be a major problem before the insect apocalypse and we used to kill them with poisob
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You should visit the average landfill to get a firsthand impression of the sheer volume of trash that arrives every day. Sorting at that point would require a huge investment in infrastructure and technology on-site. Individuals sorting their own trash at the other end of the stream is quite easy and costs only a few minutes of their time. It's like diverting the flow of a tributary stream vs. diverting the Mississip…
Big City: "Hey WM, we appreciate the valuable service you provide us just like you appreciate the monopoly on business we grant you. Trouble is, your industry doesn't seem to innovate at the same pace as other industries. Starting next year, we are going to levy taxes and fees on your business model. You can avoid paying these fees if you invest in technology to meet the following requirements: lower miles driven by…
Some years ago, Switzerland completely stopped using landfills. All garbage is incinerated. The resulting slag is then processed to reclaim nearly all metals as well as some other important elements. Of course, the burning creates CO2. However, you don't have to mine and refine metal ores, and the incinerators also generate electricity and district heating. So the ecological balance is actually pretty good. As a fina…
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>you don't have literal square miles of landfills that occupy land Land area is a non-issue. Google says Switzerland produces "80 to 90 million tonnes" of garbage per year. Assuming that garbage has the same density of water, and a landfill is 10 meters deep, a 1 sq mi landfill will last 287 years. Moreover, Wikipedia says Switzerland has 15,940 square miles of land, so that will only take up 0.006% of the country's…
this non-issue happened in a modern landfill near my hometown. They just used a different grade of material and pocketed the difference. The chemicals area leaching now into the groundwater. Any researchers reporting on that are sued. Even police is used for intimidation. Country is Germany.
Some years ago, Switzerland completely stopped using landfills. All garbage is incinerated. The resulting slag is then processed to reclaim nearly all metals as well as some other important elements. Of course, the burning creates CO2. However, you don't have to mine and refine metal ores, and the incinerators also generate electricity and district heating. So the ecological balance is actually pretty good. As a fina…
A trash incinerator in Norway is working on extracting and storing that CO2. So they could end up being carbon negative in the long run