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The Perverse Panic over Plastic
without a market demand, those recyclables are almost useless; placing them in the recycling bin won’t make a difference if you can’t make money off of them. If the demand isn’t there, or the quality of the materials post-use is incurably dirty, they end up in landfill or incinerators.
National Geographic • 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Plastic (and Recycling)
search terms: “the circular economy” “pay-as-you-throw programs” “the global waste crisis” “the zero-waste movement”
Jane McGonigal • Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
In our quest to rid ourselves from our dangerous dark matter, we’ve broken the essential rules and laws of Mother Nature. By taking our poo out of the equation, we altered not only our agriculture, but the entire planet’s ecology.
Lina Zeldovich • Our excrement is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource – if only we can overcome our visceral disgust of it
Nationwide, we discard thirty to forty billion of these containers a year.
Elizabeth Royte • Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water
Still others argue that the circular-economy idea merely reframes rather than rejects the corporate and capitalist assumptions that got us into this mess in the first place. Instead of challenging the goal of growth, circular economies create a new form of growth that is still in the hands of industrial corporations. The accusation is that the circ... See more