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> Your future soda bottle will become a toy will become part of your shoes will become...

Our current and past soda bottles have become the great pacific garbage patch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

I think the future of recycling is going to be more largely affected by a reduction in consumption.

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Reducing consumption is, by definition, not recycling. I think what he was getting at was you will be able to make your waste into useful things, or set up a recycling shop to collect waste from others.

No need to turn into Al Gore from a lighthearted take on the future of 3D printing.

Please note that I didn't say the future of recycling is the reduction of consumption, but rather that it would be more largely affected by a reduction in consumption (than by 3d printing).

Oh, and sorry for briefly turning into Al Gore there. :P Good catch!

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