paleobiology

  • Will We Ever Be Able to Clean Up All Our Trash?

    Will We Ever Be Able to Clean Up All Our Trash?

    We die and decompose, but a growing portion of our garbage lives on. Your great-grandfather’s bones have become organic matter in the soil, but the same cannot be said for the Mr. Goodbar wrapper he discarded 80 years ago today. Our landfills are poorly organised museums, robustly endowed and expanding by the second. Some, of…