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Getting rid of our trash safely and ecologically is going to be quite a challenge in the future,

but they do say one man's

garbage is another man's treasure.

We recently got done with an episode discussing potential options for climate change

mitigation, and some of those solutions along with

thinking on environmental concerns reminded me that when I was a kid there was often a lot

of news about bulges full of garbage, wandering around the coastline looking for places

to deposit their unwelcome cargo, folks often worried about where we might put all our garbage

as landfills got filled.

So I thought we'd take some time today to look at the smellier side of the future, which

is getting rid of our trash, as well as what some of our waste might be in the future.

We'll also address some of the misconceptions or dubious notions that have been suggested

over the years, and we might as well start with the landfill issue.

Americans have a reputation as being the biggest producers of trash per individual, which

is a debatable statement but we do generate about a ton of waste per person per year, and

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