“Just to meet business-as-usual trends, 115% more copper must be mined in the next 30 years than has been mined historically until now,” the study said.

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    6 months ago

    If it’s incinerated properly, burning the old plastic shouldn’t be much different from burning other hydrocarbons.

    I’d rather they burned up plastics from landfills than coal, and probably oil and gas too really.