There is no ‘away,’ but there is Western Slope recycling (OPED)

By NICOLETTE TOUSSAINT
Special to the Herald Times
RBC | Our handyman, Tim, warned us we’d have to pay a fee when he took our defunct microwave away.
That worried me, because environmentally, there’s no such place as “away”. The earth is a closed loop system, so mankind’s junk isn’t leaving. Ever. Check out www.stuffin.space and you can see more than 100,000 manmade objects, many defunct, orbiting the earth in real time.
Manmade junk amounts…