February 8, 2025 • 14 mins
We throw it out, pile it up, and produce billions of tons of it each year. How will we continue to manage our colossal trash output in the future?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Fuzz, where we envision the ideas we'll
all be buzzing about in the future.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The buzz.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
The future, play in the future, in the future, in
the future, in the future fun.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
While the things we talk about on this podcast might
seem impossible or even slightly insane, so did trash compactors, landfills,
and recycling at one point. Today these things help us
manage the massive amount of waste we produce.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
On today's episode, we're talking about garbage, trash, refuse, rubbish, waste,
all that discarded stuff we no longer want or need,
from food scraps to product packaging to old socks. What's
going to happen as are mounds of garbage keep piling
(01:12):
up in the future, you're about to find out. So, Patrick,
do you want to take us into the future and
give us a glimpse of what's going to happen with
garbage because everybody is dying to know.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, I would love to, uh, But as we always do,
first we have to step into the time machine. In
a world where second chances come in all shapes and sizes.
(01:46):
Even a limb can find new life. Did you know
that thousands of artificial limbs are discarded every year because
they didn't quite fit their intended recipients. These miss matched,
unused prosthetics, known as garbage, can still make a difference
in someone's life. At the Relimb recycling program, we believe
(02:10):
that one person's garbage could fit another person perfectly. That's
why we've created a simple way for you to recycle
your prosthetics. Whether it's an arm, a leg, or even
a microprocessor knee, your recycled prosthetics are more than materials.
They're miracles.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
At first, I thought that I would never walk again,
and then someone recycled their prosthetic.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's not garbage to me, it's hope. Not only will
your donation go toward helping someone in need, you'll also
earn valuable recycle credits, credits you can use towards your
next artificial limb upgrade. Join the movement and make your
garbage get a second chance to shine. Visit relimbrecycle dot
(02:57):
org today to donate your old prosthetic. Because what doesn't
work for one could change everything for another. Together, let's
recycle hope, let's rebuild lives. Relimb recycle program because garbage
is only garbage if we let it be.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, one of the great taglines I think we've heard
on this show.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Which part the because garbage is only garbage if we
let it be.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, that's the one right there.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, I agree, it's it's a heck of a psa,
you know, if you're really thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, big question it raises for me is in the future,
is there a lot more people missing limbs? Is this
a more standardized problems or is it you know, the
same as today and we're just talking about Okay, you
know there's a lot of people who need prosthetics and
they're getting thrown away, or is this like you know,
probably one out of three people is missing a limb.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think there are a lot more artificial limbs in
the future, a lot more people with artificial limbs. I
think the life expectancy goes up, people live longer, their
bodies wear out, and they're probably getting more limbs and limbs.
You know, that's kind of a bucket category. But I
think you know, you're talking about an arm, a leg,
(04:25):
could be maybe a heart. You think about sci fi
movies where someone just like transplants into like a robot
or something. You know, this is more of like we're
just sort of upgrading our bodies as they wear out.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I did have a picture in my mind a garbage
can opens and like a kidney just flies and kind
of hits the wall and bounces in there.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, it's possible. I like relimbrecycle dot org.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, I mean, if you're smart, you'll grab that url
now knowing somebody's gonna need it in the future.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's coming. It's coming for us all. Honestly.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The other thing is it conjures is you know, as
you state, that is a picture of just like landfills
or garbage heaps that are just filled with these artificial limbs,
you know, just like piles upon piles of them. You know,
maybe that's our future. That's kind of our wasteland. That's
what we've become a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, to the point where the word garbage becomes synonymous
with the leftover limbs, right, the artificial limbs.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Which could be something that we would see today and
think of as a piece of advanced technology.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Right. Yeah, we're like, oh my god, could you imagine
having that limb You could run faster or jump higher.
But to them it's trash. Yeah, it's trash. It's garbage.
It's it's not useful to that person.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Well, it's good to see that we're still wasteful throwing
stuff away without regard for the environment. In the future.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, just in this case, it's just not plastic straws.
It's not the idea that you would think of garbage, right,
but oh not at all.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
A very surprising and interesting future. Let's take a jaunt
into the future I have bumped into. I will escort
you there if you'll step into the time machine with me.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Welcome back to Speaking of which, our next story is
one that hits close to home, so close in fact,
you might be living in it. We'll turn it over
to butternut soup with the scoop.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It takes a person who loves trash to conquer trash.
That's the mantra of Yargo Spinch, the unlikely genius whose
garbage design fusion technology not only save the nation from
a looming waste disaster, but also reshaped modern architecture and
sustainable design. His revolutionary ideas continue to influence the world today.
(06:57):
Raised in a landfill by a vagabond who died from
a raccoon bite when he was only four years old,
Yargos was forced to fend for himself, surviving by eating
garbage and crafting friends, pets, and artwork from discarded objects.
It was during these early years that he developed the
early version of his fusion technology, harnessing heat to combine
(07:18):
trash into strong, durable materials that he would use to
create elaborage shelters. Discovered by a waste management team as
a teenager, Yargos soon realized that the outside world viewed
trash as something to get rid of, not to be repurposed.
This sparked his mission to change society's relationship with waste.
Over the next decade, he refined his technology, which could
(07:41):
transform garbage into sustainable building materials, furniture, and even clothing. Today,
Yargos Finch's designs are everywhere, from eco friendly skyscrapers to
stylish urban furniture, all built from the very things most
people throw away. His deep love for trash didn't just
save the environment, It redefined what was possible with the overlooked,
(08:03):
forgotten things we discard. Because, as Yargos proved, one man's
trash can truly be another's treasure. So Patrick, what do
you think of Yargo's Finch and his inspirational story.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I yeah, so, so his mother was bitten by a raccoon.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
They're living in the living in the land of garbage,
and a raccoon got her, you know, of all the hazards,
not one you would probably expect. But I don't know,
maybe yeah, not like maybe there's raccoons everywhere, not like.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
A rusty nail or tetanus. It's a raccoon they got her.
So a trash bandit as they were.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I mean, you're in many ways in their territory, I guess.
So living in the trash most of his young life. Yeah,
trash is all he knew. He's eating it, he's sculpting friends.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Interesting upbringing for sure, whether you want to call that
an upbringing or not. And then he was discovered by
sanitation workers.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Is that yeah, you know, after had decades of living
like this. Yeah, they finally found him.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
In there because he was pretty deep into the trash.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Apparently, huh, he doesn't even know garbage is garbage, right,
or there is such a thing as garbage, right, right.
So then he goes to the outside world and everybody's like,
you were living in garbage. This is the stuff we
throw away.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
This is worthless and he's shocked.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
His mind is completely blown.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Right, But he seems like he's sort of a genius.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, I think so. I think he has a natural
ability to kind of put things together and figure things out. Yeah, thinking,
you know, outside the box of society, and was able
to do some things that nobody else could do.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Did they ever come up with a name for his
what I would call finch fusion.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Well, there's both the technology and then the esthetic, which
I heard referred to as the garbage design esthetic, and
then there's the garbage design technology. So I've seen both
those referred to. I don't know if there's a specific
name for it. I'm sure there's something more more technical,
especially to the However, the fusion process works where he's
(10:31):
kind of, you know, fusing the garbage together and making
this sort of strong, pliable material that can be used
for building.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah. So the building which is kind of like a
new age concrete polymer type thing.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah, but incorporating you know, all.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
The crap, Yeah, all the leftovers, all the leftovers of
the world.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's a great story of and very uplifting, honestly sad
childhood that he endured it as he got older and
was able to share that gift turning trash into usable materials.
I mean that's something that people can be inspired by him.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, we all got something good from this trash and
tragic upbringing. Where most of us, you know, are pushing
away the trash, he embraced the trash.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah. So does that then culminate into all of the
waste and the trash that we have accumulated over these
I don't know, one hundreds of years, decades, whatever that
ends up being, does it like reduce that and become
something where we don't we're not worried about it anymore or.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Unclear unclear if this is like a you know, complete
answer wipes out the problem, if this is kind of regional,
or this is, you know, an all purpose solution. It
might also be, you know, and I'm just reading in
between the lines, this man is going down in history
for a reason. Maybe this becomes like, Okay, he's invented
something government mandates, everybody is going to use this. We're
(11:59):
going to do this for a few years. We're going
to clean all this up. We're going to clean up
our world a little bit, get things under control. And
then he kind of becomes this legend that is written
about in such a way where you have to learn
about him in a textbook fashion.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
That's pretty cool. It's a lot better than him taking
that technology and building a fortress.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Or he just gets bit by a raccoon and it
all ends right there.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Maybe that's the untold story. You know, the raccoon came
at them, it was gonna bite him, but she leaped
in front. Yeah, she saved him and in turn saved the.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
World unsung hero. Yeah, this is an example of how
the future just hangs on a pin just a single moment. Right.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
No, that's a great that's a great story, and you know,
very hopeful future. I think in both of those futures
we see one things that we can only dream of.
One is about people living long enough to see the
need for artificial limbs to a degree that those that
are discarded are called garbage. And then a future where
(13:01):
garbage becomes maybe mankind's salvation.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah. And also both those futures we're seeing problems solving.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Right ways to solve the crisis. I think that's always
a challenge, I think with all garbage, right, I mean,
it's one of the reasons why we recycle today.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, we're just trying to find ways to not let
this garbage like completely overtake our planet as we're producing
so much of it.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, more people, more garbage.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's kind of like more money, more problems. Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Absolutely, hopefully you like traveling with us to the future.
But that's it for this episode of The Fuzz. Tune
in next time for more of tomorrow's Buzz. Today, Today, Today,
Welcome to the Fuzz, where we envision the ideas we'll
all be buzzing about in the future.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The buzz.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
The future, play in the future, in the future, in
the future, in the future fun.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
While the things we talk about on this podcast might
seem impossible or even slightly insane, so did trash compactors, landfills,
and recycling at one point. Today these things help us
manage the massive amount of waste we produce.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
On today's episode, we're talking about garbage, trash, refuse, rubbish, waste,
all that discarded stuff we no longer want or need,
from food scraps to product packaging to old socks. What's
going to happen as are mounds of garbage keep piling
(01:12):
up in the future, you're about to find out. So, Patrick,
do you want to take us into the future and
give us a glimpse of what's going to happen with
garbage because everybody is dying to know.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, I would love to, uh, But as we always do,
first we have to step into the time machine. In
a world where second chances come in all shapes and sizes.
(01:46):
Even a limb can find new life. Did you know
that thousands of artificial limbs are discarded every year because
they didn't quite fit their intended recipients. These miss matched,
unused prosthetics, known as garbage, can still make a difference
in someone's life. At the Relimb recycling program, we believe
(02:10):
that one person's garbage could fit another person perfectly. That's
why we've created a simple way for you to recycle
your prosthetics. Whether it's an arm, a leg, or even
a microprocessor knee, your recycled prosthetics are more than materials.
They're miracles.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
At first, I thought that I would never walk again,
and then someone recycled their prosthetic.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's not garbage to me, it's hope. Not only will
your donation go toward helping someone in need, you'll also
earn valuable recycle credits, credits you can use towards your
next artificial limb upgrade. Join the movement and make your
garbage get a second chance to shine. Visit relimbrecycle dot
(02:57):
org today to donate your old prosthetic. Because what doesn't
work for one could change everything for another. Together, let's
recycle hope, let's rebuild lives. Relimb recycle program because garbage
is only garbage if we let it be.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, one of the great taglines I think we've heard
on this show.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Which part the because garbage is only garbage if we
let it be.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, that's the one right there.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, I agree, it's it's a heck of a psa,
you know, if you're really thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, big question it raises for me is in the future,
is there a lot more people missing limbs? Is this
a more standardized problems or is it you know, the
same as today and we're just talking about Okay, you
know there's a lot of people who need prosthetics and
they're getting thrown away, or is this like you know,
probably one out of three people is missing a limb.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think there are a lot more artificial limbs in
the future, a lot more people with artificial limbs. I
think the life expectancy goes up, people live longer, their
bodies wear out, and they're probably getting more limbs and limbs.
You know, that's kind of a bucket category. But I
think you know, you're talking about an arm, a leg,
(04:25):
could be maybe a heart. You think about sci fi
movies where someone just like transplants into like a robot
or something. You know, this is more of like we're
just sort of upgrading our bodies as they wear out.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I did have a picture in my mind a garbage
can opens and like a kidney just flies and kind
of hits the wall and bounces in there.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, it's possible. I like relimbrecycle dot org.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, I mean, if you're smart, you'll grab that url
now knowing somebody's gonna need it in the future.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's coming. It's coming for us all. Honestly.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The other thing is it conjures is you know, as
you state, that is a picture of just like landfills
or garbage heaps that are just filled with these artificial limbs,
you know, just like piles upon piles of them. You know,
maybe that's our future. That's kind of our wasteland. That's
what we've become a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, to the point where the word garbage becomes synonymous
with the leftover limbs, right, the artificial limbs.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Which could be something that we would see today and
think of as a piece of advanced technology.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Right. Yeah, we're like, oh my god, could you imagine
having that limb You could run faster or jump higher.
But to them it's trash. Yeah, it's trash. It's garbage.
It's it's not useful to that person.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Well, it's good to see that we're still wasteful throwing
stuff away without regard for the environment. In the future.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, just in this case, it's just not plastic straws.
It's not the idea that you would think of garbage, right,
but oh not at all.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
A very surprising and interesting future. Let's take a jaunt
into the future I have bumped into. I will escort
you there if you'll step into the time machine with me.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Welcome back to Speaking of which, our next story is
one that hits close to home, so close in fact,
you might be living in it. We'll turn it over
to butternut soup with the scoop.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It takes a person who loves trash to conquer trash.
That's the mantra of Yargo Spinch, the unlikely genius whose
garbage design fusion technology not only save the nation from
a looming waste disaster, but also reshaped modern architecture and
sustainable design. His revolutionary ideas continue to influence the world today.
(06:57):
Raised in a landfill by a vagabond who died from
a raccoon bite when he was only four years old,
Yargos was forced to fend for himself, surviving by eating
garbage and crafting friends, pets, and artwork from discarded objects.
It was during these early years that he developed the
early version of his fusion technology, harnessing heat to combine
(07:18):
trash into strong, durable materials that he would use to
create elaborage shelters. Discovered by a waste management team as
a teenager, Yargos soon realized that the outside world viewed
trash as something to get rid of, not to be repurposed.
This sparked his mission to change society's relationship with waste.
Over the next decade, he refined his technology, which could
(07:41):
transform garbage into sustainable building materials, furniture, and even clothing. Today,
Yargos Finch's designs are everywhere, from eco friendly skyscrapers to
stylish urban furniture, all built from the very things most
people throw away. His deep love for trash didn't just
save the environment, It redefined what was possible with the overlooked,
(08:03):
forgotten things we discard. Because, as Yargos proved, one man's
trash can truly be another's treasure. So Patrick, what do
you think of Yargo's Finch and his inspirational story.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I yeah, so, so his mother was bitten by a raccoon.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
They're living in the living in the land of garbage,
and a raccoon got her, you know, of all the hazards,
not one you would probably expect. But I don't know,
maybe yeah, not like maybe there's raccoons everywhere, not like.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
A rusty nail or tetanus. It's a raccoon they got her.
So a trash bandit as they were.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I mean, you're in many ways in their territory, I guess.
So living in the trash most of his young life. Yeah,
trash is all he knew. He's eating it, he's sculpting friends.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Interesting upbringing for sure, whether you want to call that
an upbringing or not. And then he was discovered by
sanitation workers.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Is that yeah, you know, after had decades of living
like this. Yeah, they finally found him.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
In there because he was pretty deep into the trash.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Apparently, huh, he doesn't even know garbage is garbage, right,
or there is such a thing as garbage, right, right.
So then he goes to the outside world and everybody's like,
you were living in garbage. This is the stuff we
throw away.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
This is worthless and he's shocked.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
His mind is completely blown.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Right, But he seems like he's sort of a genius.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, I think so. I think he has a natural
ability to kind of put things together and figure things out. Yeah, thinking,
you know, outside the box of society, and was able
to do some things that nobody else could do.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Did they ever come up with a name for his
what I would call finch fusion.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Well, there's both the technology and then the esthetic, which
I heard referred to as the garbage design esthetic, and
then there's the garbage design technology. So I've seen both
those referred to. I don't know if there's a specific
name for it. I'm sure there's something more more technical,
especially to the However, the fusion process works where he's
(10:31):
kind of, you know, fusing the garbage together and making
this sort of strong, pliable material that can be used
for building.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah. So the building which is kind of like a
new age concrete polymer type thing.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah, but incorporating you know, all.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
The crap, Yeah, all the leftovers, all the leftovers of
the world.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's a great story of and very uplifting, honestly sad
childhood that he endured it as he got older and
was able to share that gift turning trash into usable materials.
I mean that's something that people can be inspired by him.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, we all got something good from this trash and
tragic upbringing. Where most of us, you know, are pushing
away the trash, he embraced the trash.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah. So does that then culminate into all of the
waste and the trash that we have accumulated over these
I don't know, one hundreds of years, decades, whatever that
ends up being, does it like reduce that and become
something where we don't we're not worried about it anymore or.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Unclear unclear if this is like a you know, complete
answer wipes out the problem, if this is kind of regional,
or this is, you know, an all purpose solution. It
might also be, you know, and I'm just reading in
between the lines, this man is going down in history
for a reason. Maybe this becomes like, Okay, he's invented
something government mandates, everybody is going to use this. We're
(11:59):
going to do this for a few years. We're going
to clean all this up. We're going to clean up
our world a little bit, get things under control. And
then he kind of becomes this legend that is written
about in such a way where you have to learn
about him in a textbook fashion.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
That's pretty cool. It's a lot better than him taking
that technology and building a fortress.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Or he just gets bit by a raccoon and it
all ends right there.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Maybe that's the untold story. You know, the raccoon came
at them, it was gonna bite him, but she leaped
in front. Yeah, she saved him and in turn saved the.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
World unsung hero. Yeah, this is an example of how
the future just hangs on a pin just a single moment. Right.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
No, that's a great that's a great story, and you know,
very hopeful future. I think in both of those futures
we see one things that we can only dream of.
One is about people living long enough to see the
need for artificial limbs to a degree that those that
are discarded are called garbage. And then a future where
(13:01):
garbage becomes maybe mankind's salvation.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah. And also both those futures we're seeing problems solving.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Right ways to solve the crisis. I think that's always
a challenge, I think with all garbage, right, I mean,
it's one of the reasons why we recycle today.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, we're just trying to find ways to not let
this garbage like completely overtake our planet as we're producing
so much of it.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, more people, more garbage.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's kind of like more money, more problems. Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Absolutely, hopefully you like traveling with us to the future.
But that's it for this episode of The Fuzz. Tune
in next time for more of tomorrow's Buzz. Today, Today, Today,
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