There was a post exactly like this 7 years ago that was archived. Plastics, organic matter, metals they were all taken from the earth. There’s already technology for almost all complicated things. Why not for absolute zero waste? Like the problem with plastics is the decomposition rate, why not hasten the decomposition by grinding them up to powder so that they can be mixed with soil. Instead of ugly and dangerous dumpsites like mountains of trash.
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we want to put the waste back put how do we do that without damaging stuff? If you could put all the waste back to where it came from literally, i think that could work for some metals probably. the problem is getting it back and storing it in the meantime and sorting all the different waste metals from all the different products.
some of the waste are results of complex chemical processes meaning the waste is completely alien to the earth systems for breaking down stuff. No matter where we dump it, or spread it around, it will disrupt natural chemical processes at that location. So we have do to more processing to change the waste back to something we can safely dumb or otherwise return to the soil/atmosphere.
I mean if all our waste was decomposable we would not have a problem. we take stuff from the soil and change it up much that the earth cant put it back together the way it used to be on its own.
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