Alright so here's more colorful smoke.
If we control our own food plastic, paper and metal waste we will have enough materials to begin small scale manufacturing and agriculture in earnest.
Paper and food waste are easily converted into soil or fertilizer for food propagation (vermiculture, bokashi, composting, mycology)
Metal waste like aluminum and tin can easily be melted down into easy to store cakes using micro scale backyard foundries.
Plastic waste requires more sophisticated equipment, but it's not out of reach. Precious plastic has developed open source micro scale plastic recycling and production that can realistically be built by one or two people. Micro plastic filters on washing machines will also raise awareness on how easy it is to add plastic and hormonal pollution to our water supply.
The idea is to build human ecology that functions much like the natural one that we're a part of. If we can gain wealth and power through processing the toxic waste of our own dwellings and the ones around us even, all the better. Even manufacturing and selling the equipment to process the waste is a possibility.
This is perfectly suited to urban areas that have maker spaces that allow us to bridge the gap between the usable material and a final product.
Since the waste stream is so excessive, there's no need to worry about "maintaining" our own levels in order to have access to sufficient manufacturing and organic materials.
At this point I would focus on using the waste material to produce manufacturing machines and robots in order to bring production back to the local sphere.
Knitting machines to make plastic free socks sweaters, blankets and carpets. Bokashi bins, vermicomposting set ups, apartment friendly planters, plant trays, diy incubation and sterilization chambers, bio remediation growing bins for urban soils with toxins that need to be removed, algae bio fuel for vehicles.
I want to become the missing link in our ecological life cycle.
Comments
February 6, 2019 22:19
Am adding the link to Precious Plastics - they are doing amazing stuff https://preciousplastic.com/
Great article
October 28, 2022 14:14
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