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Road to Zerophoria: Journal entry from the future #5

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I am spending 10 days in the future, and this is what my daily life like in the year 2033, where zero-waste laws are strictly enforced, and no one comes to pick up the trash anymore.

You can read more about this imagined future scenario here.

Today, instead of throwing out the pile of papers I’ve accumulated throughout the years, I sent them to the nearest paper recycling station, turning them into reusable notepads and notebooks. Unlike ten years ago, when recycling paper is so expensive that it makes economic sense to send them into landfills, we now have this technology that can recycle paper cheaply. Moreover, once the recycling limit of paper has been reached, paper recycling stations also offer services that make them into compost.

I generated this photo using BlueWillow, an AI image generating tool.
The text prompt used to generate this image is “modern paper recycling station which produces notepads and notebooks. cinematic. realistic.”

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