Terry Tamminen wonders if zero-waste is possible:
With a global population that now exceeds 7 billion and a rapidly growing middle class, especially in developing economies such as Brazil, China, and India, resources are becoming increasingly scarce and we can no longer afford to waste anything. Many communities are also running out of practical places to bury waste, and neighbors fight expansion of existing landfills. … A better solution is to make landfills a thing of the past by challenging our imaginations and ingenuity to devise more zero-waste strategies that convert garbage into gold.
(Photo: A horse stands in the Jardim Gramacho landfill, the biggest in South America, in Rio de Janeiro on May 15, 2012. The landfill is set to shut down next June 1st. By Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images.)
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