I honestly feel recycling is wasted effort. It&#x27;s largely a way of buying off our existential terror with publicly visible pious busywork. Rubbish which actually makes it to landfill, as a problem, is not the big one or even in the big few. Rubbish that does not, which ends up as polluting litter or in the sea, is a larger problem but one recycling completely doesn&#x27;t address.<p>So far as I&#x27;m concerned, what a landfill is, is a resource mine we don&#x27;t yet have the technology or desire to exploit. A bit of futuristic technology, and we could be disassembling it for gold, iron, rare earths, hydrocarbons, etc. It&#x27;s not gone, but it&#x27;s put aside. And putting things aside can be fine if you come back for them.