Radical thought: The last mile should be designed for larger, durable household goods more than people. That’s how we get to a high-reuse consumer economies with low replenishment rates and slowest path to landfill.
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So much gets tossed because it’s too hard to sell, dispose off, temporarily lend/rent out, share, store, give away free to needy, maintain/repair etc.
Here is Seattle, you even have to pay for some charitable orgs to pick up stuff. One is booked into July for pickups.
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has been serving pretty well for that, for our neighborhood.

