Educating people to spend time solving themselves a problem over-and-over forever, versus expanding our knowledge of material science to solve that same problem for everyone, once and for all?
I know which one's preferable.
I know which one's preferable.
Zero waste is already technically achievable with the technologies we have today. Kamikatsu, Japan is an extreme example where they sort their waste into 34 different bins.
We don't have to do all that but we would see extreme immediate benefits from even slightly abandoning George Bush's "the American lifestyle is non-negotiable" proclamation
Don't forget to account for the costs of 34 separate dumping operations, generally with 34 different trucks, which is itself and environmental disaster.