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We need some DARPA-style investment and design competitions for reduce, reuse, recycle. Like the X-Prizes, Bill Gates' quest for a composting toilet, Project Wa
by specialist 4y ago
We need some DARPA-style investment and design competitions for reduce, reuse, recycle. Like the X-Prizes, Bill Gates' quest for a composting toilet, Project Warp. This is a proven strategy for goal directed innovation.
Local optimizations, relying on individual actors in a long and complicated lifecycle supply chain, will not result in a global optimum. (Cite theory of constraints.)
In 15 min, everyone here could imagine +100 solutions. Ceramic coatings, an engineered fiber that breaks down with a specific enzyme, thin clay disposable cups (tried in India?)...
And then we should try every idea, funding based on plausibility.
- kjkjadksj 4y agoI think bamboo is such an underexploited resource. You can grow it literally anywhere, even in places that see winter. A pub could have a stand of bamboo in the back that they cut pint cups from. Of course its invasive but at this point anywhere with human activity is so unnatural to begin with that it wont matter much.