Recycled glass is being turned into a silicon-rich soil additive that farmers say is improving crop growth while creating a new use for millions of discarded...
Would not have anticipated this would be a good idea.
He patented the method of crushing the glass. That right there is the likely reason it’ll be cheaper for someone else not to so finely crush it.
Also, an easily recyclable material that can create bottles ad nauseam is instead being destroyed in order to patch the problems with commercial agriculture?
This is more pulverized than shard
Until for reasons of capitalism less finely crushed glass is cheaper somewhere for some reason, and is used instead.
It will happen, and people will die somewhere because of it.
Oh, this is happening already. The world is running out of various forms of sand that are crucial to our industrial infrastructure.
The competition for the remainders has already turned murderous in some places.
cf. The World in a Grain by Vince Beiser
He patented the method of crushing the glass. That right there is the likely reason it’ll be cheaper for someone else not to so finely crush it.
Also, an easily recyclable material that can create bottles ad nauseam is instead being destroyed in order to patch the problems with commercial agriculture?
None of this is very Solarpunk.
@punksnotdead @Fluke Keep picturing getting a shard in your eye… can’t not picture it…