The whole recycling “industry” is a scam. They only bother for some items where there is profit and that’s only true some of the time, most of the time it all goes into the same landfills as everything else.
It’s not a serious problem though, we’ve barely scratched the surface of available resources on earth and have plenty of space for refuse (maybe not the Gazans, but the rest of us do).
I think that is correct. I think we are not anywhere close to running out of space to bury this stuff. And eventually, if need be, with the much more developed economy of the future, it will become cheap to reprocess that tainted landfill land into more natural stuff.
But hey, they developed a better egg crate that farmers prefer. I think that is pretty cool.
In HK there are entire apartment complexes with 50,000 people living in them, built on top of former landfill sites
That's if you're lucky, and they're not dumping it in the ocean!
