The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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The waste isn't what it used to be, and im sure that there are technology advancements that could be done to reduce the waste further by recycling it somehow.

That's the folly, it's the same folly for most human technologies, phones, batteries, plastic bags, paper, cars, tyres, and now Solar PV panels.

Paper and plastic are way easier to recycle and re-use than any of the other alternatives like Solar PV panels or batteries, and we have paper and plastic piling up in repositories all over each and every major city, even warehouses full of the stuff to keep it dry so it won't spontaneously ignite, or else the eventually bury it after residents have diligently sorted the recycling into clean piles and / or been fined for throwing it in the wrong bins! Do you know the biggest potential use for the bulk of it, they are planning to combust it in specially designed furnaces to make energy!