Can A Circular Economy Make Trash Obsolete?
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How This Town Produces No Trash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eym10GGidQU Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml People produce trillions of pounds of garbage, but recycling this waste can be lucrative. Can a circular economy turn trash into treasure? Learn More: USA Today: How garbage can boost U.S. economy http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/22/samans-davos-how-garbage-can-boost-us-economy/4774147/ Bloomberg: To a Chinese Scrap-Metal Hunter, America's Trash Is Treasure http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-08-29/to-a-chinese-scrap-metal-hunter-americas-trash-is-treasure The Guardian: China leads the waste recycling league https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/14/waste-trade-china-recycling-rubbish Huffington Post: Sweden Must Import Trash For Energy Conversion Because Its Recycling Program Is So Successful http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/sweden-imports-trash_n_1876746.html Music Track Courtesy of APM Music: "Marking Time" Subscribe to Seeker Daily! http://bit.ly/1GSoQoY _________________________ Seeker Daily is committed to answering the smart, inquisitive questions we have about life, society, politics and anything else happening in the news. It's a place where curiosity rules and together we'll get a clearer understanding of this crazy world we live in. Watch more Seeker Daily: http://bit.ly/1GSoQoY Seeker Daily now has a newsletter! Get a weekly round-up of our most popular videos across all the shows we make here at Seeker Daily. For more info and to sign-up, click here. http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Subscribe now! http://bit.ly/1GSoQoY Seeker Daily on Twitter https://twitter.com/seekerdaily Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/TraceDominguez Seeker Daily on Facebook http://bit.ly/1qcsFTk Seeker Daily on Google+ http://bit.ly/1OmDEQa Special thanks to Jules Suzdaltsev for hosting Seeker Daily! Check Jules out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jules_su
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Chính phủ cần có chế độ giảm thuế cho các công ty đầu tư vào circular economy, hơn là phải tốn công chôn lấp gây ô nhiễm môi trường
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Sam Hyde was right
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Who throws away phones! There are so many websites that will buy your old Nokia- just check them out first to make sure they don't turn them into tanks for North Korea.
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How powerful is the Principality of Sealand?
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Get the smart engineers to invent the machinery that could sort out all our garbage into recycling waste from ONE bin !
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didnt they already try this shit on its always sunny in philadelphia?
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great business due to all waste will turn into gold dust
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how powerful is my dick??
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This is a really great idea. Thank you for sharing!
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how powerful is new york
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I invented this.
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So...there are problems here that you should probably address, because you're kind of, sort of, maybe edging up on lying a little bit.
First up is the assumption that landfill is any sort of a significant problem. While it varies from geography to geography (nations in Europe, for instance, put a much higher premium on land than the United States, so the general drive to minimize landfill there is more significant), in the U.S. at least, it's simply not that big of a deal. The nation could carve off a chunk of uninhabited desert and take care of all of its landfill needs for the foreseeable future.
Next is this garbage patch you keep referring to. What you're alluding to is the Pacific Garbage Patch, and that doesn't really exist in the sense that you're appealing to it. While accumulation of plastic particulates in the Pacific Gyre is certainly something that's happening, it doesn't take the shape of any visible garbage patch. The pictures that you can find online of floating piles of trash are universally taken from around various and sundry third world harbors where a lack of environmental controls allows for gross dumping of trash into the ocean. By the time any garbage actually made it to the center of the Pacific Gyre, it could not continue to exist as anything you would visibly identify as trash. The combination of wave action and ultraviolet light would break it down to the point that it's basically degraded to the size of sand grains. That's certainly not great, since it ends up competing with plankton as dietary mass, but it's not Garbage Island, and all of the tests run so far seem to imply that while it's a situation of which we should be aware and that we should continue to study, no form of action to mitigate the situation is likely to be either economically or environmentally advisable.
Finally, it bears mentioning that this notion of completely reengineering any system as large and complex as the United States national economy is simply laughable and entertaining the idea as anything more than a funny little thought experiment really doesn't deserve anything better than ridicule. I'm not saying that things are perfect, or even that things are ideal, but things are the way they are for whole universes of practical reasons that you simply can't wish away. There are reasons why the economy isn't already circular that any rational proposal would have to address that both this short episode and the original paper don't even begin to broach. -
I always thought they should dump it inside of an abandoned mine.
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lose the beard
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Volume to low... Always
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Why there's no CC sub?
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How powerful is Honduras
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Dirty ass Indonesia needs a circular recycling economy.
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