And I acknowledge that defence is cooler with a c.

See, we can get along.

Science!

Also, ask dinosaurs in re space programs.

Also, nice low grav point defense against incoming spicy rocks.

Also, read Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein.

Some people can.

I did NOT know that. How lovely!

Black company, tanith lee if you like xanth, moorcock, lieber, all the OG stuff. And Zelazny.

Alas. It was not good enough to draw my affection.

LeGuin. EARTHSEA.

Yep. Yep yep yep.

I love the idea of weaponizing mycelia or animals to help us save the planet we're all on.

But we threw it out, and we're going to have to help pick it up.

I like it.

I think we can do better, but your suggestion is accessible, and affordable.

It does NOT scale without behavioral change, but what does, really?

Good points again.

What if there were a small appliance in home that turns mixed plastic into bricks?

Because the trip the Land Fill is where we lose a lot of plastic into the environment.

You make great points.

Now that it is trash, what then should we do to keep this waste out of the environment?

If you suggest incineration with insane chimney filters, and burning it for energy, I'm okay with that.

End of day it's about:

a) phasing out consumer use of plastic.

b) disposing of consumer plastic in ways that does not create more microplastics in the environment, and in our water.

I contend that if it's not about that, then we've limited our duration as a viable species.

What seems needful is passive distributed digesters that can operate at both community and metropolitan scales.

Some form of in home preprocessing could help as well.

We shall still need these kind of scaled municipal facilities throughout the phasing out of plastic, which will probably take into the next century.

They're our venus.