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| Topic | Why don't we just launch all our garbage out into space |
| Zeus 07/10/21 1:27:33 AM #15: | 1) Because launching things into space is expensive and has an environmental impact 2) Because there's literally no reason to do it anyway, because trash (when properly disposed) isn't actually a problem no matter what the recycling movement tries to claim. (And when it's not properly disposed, you get the same issues as now.) Which isn't to say that there aren't good reasons to recycle at least some product categories, but getting rid of material waste isn't necessarily one of them. Monopoman posted... I guess if you pushed it out enough to break the gravitational pull of Earth then it wouldn't be as bad but talk about a huge expense, even in 500 years it would likely still be stupidly expensive to do that. Far cheaper just to take a giant plot of land and keep burying garbage like we currently do, I think Penn and Teller did a show on this one time and claimed that the garbage we generate over the next 50 years could at worst take up like 100 or so square miles with how deep they bury it now. This. --- (\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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