What about having a section on YC Resources that collects links like this. Something like “Myths and Facts Problem-Solvers Should Know”, where potential applicants can benefit from starting with better data / views of the world?
"This list sounds contrarian, but I think it’s actually the boring consensus view among people who are highly informed about waste disposal."https://medium.com/@robertwiblin/what-you-think-about-landfill-and-recycling-is-probably-totally-wrong-3a6cf57049ce …
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Penn & Teller did a rather cheeky episode of Bullshit on this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qcdNaajKExs …
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The true contrarian opinion is that landfills will be mined for resources in 100 years.
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Forget about robots and drones delivering pizza. The future is robots taking the trash out.https://twitter.com/imleslahdin/status/1167568494491160576 …
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Lots of "We'll be richer and have better technology in the future so we [they] can clean up leaky landfills later." Reminds me of nuclear power. *Of course* we should aim to use it (like landfills), but waste disposal plan mustn't be uncosted, unspecified future tech/resources.
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We throw what we don't need. If companies had to pay for all the externalities, many local optima would get too expensive (eg plastic wrap on tomatoes you pick at the supermarket) and we'd find 100x solutions (electric Uber veg delivery). Not making maybe cheaper and > value.
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Yup, and of there are a lot of externalities: resources exhaustion, impact of mining/drilling, carbon emissions associated with all of these. None are accounted in this article. What do we do when there is no Titanium left? Mine landfills at ten times the cost of recycling?
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I don't see the connection between landfill space and homelessness in urban areas today. Here in NYC all trash ends up on barges & trains and is shipped dozens if not hundreds of miles away. Local landfills (like we used to have on Staten Island) are indeed filled up.
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I recycle, but I've started to think that anyone getting hung up on waste disposal (on either side) either does so in bad faith or because they're missing the point. Isn't it obvious that the big problem is the making of crap we don't need, not waste disposal?
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I hardly own much "crap I don't need". that's a overused bromide.
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