Is it theoretically possible to recycle 99 percent of the garbage we produce? And if not, then what the hell are we even doing?
>>16929220If you count burning for fuel as recycling, then yes.
theoretically possible, practically noenergy reqs to turn plastic back, melting pots, and make bad paper is enormous, biomatter pools, etc, it is easier to just dump it in a landfillbut yes trash is a problem but it takes civilizational effort, society is not equitpped
>>16929220>Is it theoretically possible to recycle 99 percent of the garbage we produce?Yes, it's just not a good idea. The same way we could everyone walk around on their hands but why do that when we have perfectly good legs instead.
>>16929220recycling is a guilty afterthought meant to hide the real issue, ie overconsuming shit you don't need
>>16929220Yeah, otherwise we wouldn't be here, we would have been swimming in accumulated waste products of organisms living on this planet spanning over a billion years.
>>16929332The only reason we aren't literally swimming in it is because it gets buried alongside charcoal, bitumen and fossils.>Kerogen is solid, insoluble organic matter in sedimentary rocks. It consists of a variety of organic materials, including dead plants, algae, and other microorganisms, that have been compressed and heated by geological processes. All the kerogen on earth is estimated to contain 10^16 tons of carbon. This makes it the most abundant source of organic compounds on earth, exceeding the total organic content of living matter 10,000-fold.>Labile kerogen breaks down to generate principally liquid hydrocarbons (i.e., oil), refractory kerogen breaks down to generate principally gaseous hydrocarbons, and inert kerogen generates no hydrocarbons but forms graphite. That and much organic matter gets repurposed by mushrooms, bugs or microbes soon enough.
>>16929220Just throw it in volcanos God/tectonics however you want to frame it gave us the literal best way to recycle everything on earth. Ashes to ashes.
>>16929697Nigga I recommend looking up what happens when you throw a bag of trash into a volcanco.
>>16929698See you think I'm a redditor joking. Do you realize that for any of our biology to make any sense at all there must have been some interaction between Africa and South America about 60 million years ago and the best way to explain it so far is catastrophic flooding so bad it took breeding populations of monkeys and cats to South America? And you don't believe in asinine theories based on cataclysmic events?
>>16929703I'm not talking about that; I'm specifically talking about this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq7DDk8eLs8Which is only one trash bag; to use a volcano as a trash disposal system would level the whole region.
>>16929711Like a volcano?
>>16929711The difference in the temperature of trash and a volcano makes volcano-based trash disposal too dangerous, and there would be similar danger for any other natural source of lava or magma.
>>16929223>count burning for fuel as recycling,This solves the vast majority.Food waste composted.Burnable burned.Metals remelted.Really leaves glass and ceramic as the waste. Glass is recyclable but not worth the effort and ceramic has use only as aggregrate such as potshard wall filling used by Romans.There's an open source nerd with an electrolysis ion exchange membrane hydrochloric acid system for dissolving metals from crushed ore or electronics waste and the solution can be selectively electroplated into metal powder by each element. Would be useful as an metal recycler for valuable trace metals.
