Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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How much metal can we actually recycle?

Unfortunately, economic factors cause a huge waste of recyclable materials because it isn't 'worth it' to retrieve them.

Philippe Bihouix is an engineer and the author of The Age of Low Tech, which examines why technological innovation is just not going to be enough to get our way out of our resource bottlenecks, the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, and rising inequality.