Landfill

apart from the fear that I’ll one day have a use for the thing I’m binning, the thought of anything going into landfill weighs heavily on my soul.

Adrian “Urinal” Chiles writes amusingly about decluttering today.

Don’t worry too much about the landfill thing, Adrian. Do your best to intercept the passage to landfill but remember that (a) all things are destined for landfill except for those that remain aboveground when the asteroid hits, and (b) everything is already landfill.

“Waste” happens not at the end of a manufactured thing’s life, in landfill, but at the start of its life when raw materials are extracted from the Earth.

Nobody seems to get this. It is my contribution to the eco/bins/minimalism conversation.

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