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It is not greedy to try to create a more circular system where waste products are reused


Keep toxins out of landfill at any possible cost no matter how high, including poisoning ourselves.

Landfill is precious and sacred and must not be used.


The problem is not that people disagree with this, it's that people didn't know about the presence of these chemicals in biosolids until recently.


We have a general problem in our society in which people are desperate to NOT put stuff in landfill, and fail to realize that stuff is toxic and should not be reused. It should be thrown away.

“We didn’t know that used stuff was toxic.” Does not hold as an argument because stuff for recycling is often toxic it’s something we know, everyone should know, it’s obvious, assume it, don’t keep coming back saying “hey didn’t realize this or that was toxic and should be in landfill instead of recycled”.

Don’t recycle plastic and paper and use it for food and drink.

Don’t recycle car tires into roads and playgrounds and later realize they leach microplastics and are cancer causing.

We need to stop recycling toxic shit then saying “we didn’t know”.


Landfills are remarkably environmentally friendly and safe, with plenty, plenty of room. Landfills are a GREAT place to put things we don't want to use anymore.

Recycling is nice too, if it works out, which isn't as often as we'd like to think.


I don't think your sarcasm was picked up here :-)


It is if those waste products are drastically cheaper than what you should be using


Why? Are you saying we should only do waste reduction if it's expensive?

"Should" here is doing a lot of work, it makes the argument circular imo.


We should only do waste reduction if it doesn't result in wide scale poisoning of aquifers and biomes. Does that sound more agreeable?


Yeah, that position makes sense.




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