Can We Make Garbage Disappear?
Sure, if we stop creating it. But if the rest of the world catches up to America's trash-production rate, it could be a real disaster. Still, there's hope, both in the form of smarter technologies that use one industry's waste as raw material for another, and in the emerging field of nanotechnology, which, in theory, can build smaller, better mousetraps -- and much else -- in much less wasteful fashion.
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