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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Yes, plastics were taken from the earth, but it is chemically very different from the separate elements it’s made of.
It’s probably gonna be easier to understand like this – water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, two common gases that are chemically bound together to create the liquid we all know. But, when you spray your face with a fine mish with water, you still get wet because the hydrogen and oxygen don’t separate when you just make the water particles smaller. Same with plastics, they are toxic when they’re in their plastic form and grinding them up doesn’t make them any less toxic.
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