Garbage as a resource

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Tom Szaky sells people worm feces in thrown-away bottles. At Treehugger, he writes:

Garbage is America’s #1 export and possibly the biggest raw material source we have.

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Waste is also a new idea – probably no more than 100 years old. It is an idea that came about with the birth of complex polymers and consumerism (brought on by the fad for disposable products in the 1950s). If necessity breeds innovation, then we are long overdue to find innovative ways to solve the waste issue

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If enough businesses begin to use this undervalued material the demand for garbage will skyrocket. As we all know, when demand goes up then supply goes down, which in the case of garbage, is a very good thing!

For more on building with “garbage,” check out:

• Garbage architecture
• From garbage to gold: bike tubes to messenger bags
• Samurai costume nearly entirely from garbage cans