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As with most places, our municipal recycling system just throws away most of what it receives (but that looks like it is changing soon-ish, maybe). My wife real
by gilbetron 5y ago
As with most places, our municipal recycling system just throws away most of what it receives (but that looks like it is changing soon-ish, maybe). My wife really virtue signals by wanting to recycle everything, and gets annoyed if I throw something that is "recyclable". I just tell her that recycling deprive the future waste miners of their livelihood :)
I joke, but I do believe there will be "waste miners" at some point in the future.
- pfdietz 5y agoIn the post fossil fuel age, the waste stream will be a valuable source of reduced carbon for use in polymers and chemicals, and perhaps in specialized applications where chemical fuels are still needed (like long distance aircraft).