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Friday, April 06, 2007

Unrecycling


Unrecycling
Originally uploaded by littlewing_78.
I saw a post highlighting 'unrecycling' on Boing Boing and started poking around Flickr. Apparently these cans are popular subjects of photographs for American tourists in China.

An interesting symbol. I like the idea of treating recycling as the primary result of consumption and the alternative as somehow derivative or aberrant. My only concern is that "un" paired with "re" is linguistically troubling, but "uncycling" looks a lot like "unicycling," and that's just asking for trouble. There has to be something better than "un."

Decycling? Excycling? Landfilling?

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