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by nine_k 1743 days ago
Do we have so many of them that we are running out of dumping grounds? Are they made of rare, hard-to-obtain stuff? Are they toxic or otherwise dangerous?

I suppose all the answers to the above questions are negative. If so, let them pile up. We will recycle them as we learn an economical way to do that.

(For hundreds of millions of years, mollusks did not recycle their calcite shells. It had major ecological and even geological consequences. Now we have literal mountains of them. Has even it made Earth a worse place? Some old blades are nothing in comparison.)

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They're made of carbon fiber right? You could think of it as a very slow form of carbon capture.