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Why does the alternative to “landfill” always seem like “quirky interior decoration”? My deep theory of downcycling: the highest-entropy terminal-dumb utility of a manufactured good is as an interior decoration element. We should all be living inside aestheticized landfills.
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The @WatamuMarine's EcoWorld shop floor is made of bottle bottoms which are then polished to give this amazing look....
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They are the charismatic megafauna. Goods that can be produced from down cycled inputs at industrial scale are boring. Like road surface.
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Still fits the interior decoration theorem sort of. Just the interior of civilization. I guess the lowest-smarts use of any bunch of atoms is pure structural support of some sort.
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This is the entire premise behind the Earthships in Taos--well worth looking into if you haven't. We vacationed in one and it was pretty damn amazing!
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