Eli5 why we don’t move trash like we move human solid waste.
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Poop floats and breaks up in the water. Trash doesn’t do that. Some of it may float, a lot of it won’t. Some of it will break up, a lot of it won’t. Also people produce a small amount of biological waste compared with the mountains of trash.
To take your idea a step further, it wouldn’t be impossible to have like industrial shredders turn paper and cardboard and plastic into tiny bits and then transport them in tubes of running water. Would the infrastructure and the operation be any net value added compared to our current system? I don’t have the right info to make an assessment. My gut kinda says no.
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