Recycling in the Age of Tech.

1.3 billion tons of trash per year. Transporting these represent 50% of greenhouse gas emissions. How will a tech & sustainable civilization deal with this? Here are the solutions!

Humanity has a waste problem. Globally, we generate about 1.3 billion tons of trash per year, far more than we can properly process or recycle. This leads to environmental tragedies like ocean plastic pollution and geopolitical tensions as Western countries search for new places to stash their trash.

Because we waste so much, we must extract unsustainable quantities of natural resources to keep pace with growing consumption. OECD has calculated that flow of materials through acquisition, transportation, processing, manufacturing, use, and disposal are already responsible for approximately 50 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. The UN International Resources Panel projects the use of natural resources to more than double by 2050.

So, how did we get here?

Recycling isn’t a historical issue.

The concept of recycling dates back to almost a millennium ago, precisely 1031. During that time, the Japanese Imperial Court of the Heian period was facing a decline, the production of paper gradually …