"If you consider the Earth as your home—which it is—you cannot ever throw anything away because there is no away, because everywhere is the center of somewhere. Everywhere is the center of life, of Nature, of the environment, of our home. What we dump, what we throw away, sooner or later comes back around."

From @gerrymcgovern 's World Wide Waste newsletter
https://gerrymcgovern.com/where-are-you-from/

Where are you from?

Most of us have a concept of home. It is something that is critically important to us. A place we feel comfortable and protected. We care much about our home. We like to keep it warm, clean, dry, safe, comfortable. At a most basic level, our home is a house or an apartment.Some of us think beyond the physical building we own or rent. We think about...

Gerry McGovern

@tlowette @gerrymcgovern

If it's not biodegradable. For example, whilst it's wasteful to "dump" food, organisms (macro & micro) will break down that food (digestion).

But, generally, no organisms have evolved to digest plastic (hence crude oil based plastics are non biodegradable. A pollution from the time they're manufactured)

As for air pollution, human activities are relentlessly emitting more into the atmosphere. The biosphere can "recover", only after we stop air pollution.