I think it would be in our best interests as a nation to make recycling a priority. I know, it sounds cheesy, but when you really think about it, we're chucking a hell of a lot of resources, including petrochemicals, plastics, paper, metal, and other items which we will then have to replace by pumping up some oil, mining some metal, or doing some other kind of work.
I know, also a bit of a cliche. But when you take a trip out to the local landfill, drive up a small mountain of former landfill to get the current part, and it is itself quite immense, you just have to think about just how much of our resources end up lost to us in a place like this.
We might end up, at some point in the future, using the wonders of nanotechnology to pick through what we once considered disposable. How much of our own garbage do we want to be picking through, and how soon?
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