Every single thing you see is future trash(believermag.com)

32 pointsby robg16 yıl önce5 comments

Every single thing you see is future trash

http://believermag.com/issues/201009/?read=interview_nagle

4 comments

acabal16 yıl önce

Whenever I'm making a purchase, I try to think about whether or not I'll still want to use that item in a few years. The way many of us buy new gadgets and throw them in the trash the second the next generation comes out scares me. Food and biodegradables will disappear over time, but the cell phones and laptops we toss in the trash for that next version of Android or iOS will sit in landfills forever, or until someone in a third world country melts it down in a home-made crucible. Even recycling electronics is a gamble--when I went to visit an HP recycling center 5 years ago, they admitted that much of what they reclaim stays in storage or goes otherwise unused because it's not cost-effective. (Maybe things have changed since then).

A history professor of mine once said that the legacy the Greeks and Romans left behind is bronze and marble; the legacy we leave behind will be all plastic.

meric16 yıl önce

Why would you leave your mobile phone at a recycling center for free?! Sell it on EBay!

pontifier16 yıl önce

The future is now... (throws something away)

Seriously though, I was trying to clean up my house a few years ago and over the summer filled three, 40 cubic yard construction dumpsters full of junk and my house is still full of junk.

julius_geezer16 yıl önce

Well, or grist for an archaelogist of the 21+nth century.

robotkad16 yıl önce

Including this post!