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What you think about landfill and recycling is probably wrong
- pasttense01 3y ago"We aren’t anywhere near running out of space for landfill. The Earth is huge and we are good at digging deep holes. Space will never be a meaningful constraint." While true in general there is a very big problem called NIMBYism (not in my back yard) where a great many places refuse to allow new landfills--resulting in the refuse having to be transported very long distances--and thus using a great deal of energy for the transportation.
- Ajay-p 3y agoAlmost all municipal recycling goes to the landfill, ever since foreign countries stopped accepting American recyclables. This article is quite a bit of "out of sight, out of mind" short shortsightedness.