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Waste and inefficiency is by far the biggest contributor to climate change and pollution. If we still exploited cheap energy in the form of fossil fuels and still utilized man made materials such as plastics for the last 50 years but used them efficiently and without waste and world would be in much much better shape.
The next time you go by a construction site, if you can (without putting yourself in harms way) look inside the dumpsters on site. Besides the waste from packaging you’ll vast amounts of still usable building materials simply thrown out because it is more cost effective to get rid of them than store them for future use on other jobs. I have taken 100′ coils of rope, pallets of polyicoanurate roof insulation, glazing units for windows ordered the wrong size, tools and more from job site dumpsters all over in my career in construction/design…