The irony: all this mass consumption is not what makes "the globe" very happy.
How do we solve the "waste" problem?
Stop making appliances out of plastic that break in 5 years, or with cheap components that the average person doesn't know how or have the ability to fix necessitating a electronic board replacement that costs 90% of a brand new unit.
Step 2. Stop the desire to consume by killing ads.
Heroin addicts I'v known, the ones that lived and the ones that didn't, taught me a whole lot more about our current state of technology than I'd ever bargained for.