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This might be a bit naive, and I'm not the best micro-economist, but would it be feasible for someone/sime country to basically make an industry out of recycling and composting? As in, they'll pay a small price to import what people were already throwing away [including higher end things like electronics and vehicles and airplanes] and recycle the raw materials out of them, and then make a vertical integration that way. I.e, a country doesn't have domestic aluminium deposits so it imports recyclable waste that it then takes the aluminum out of.
Same with industrial composting. Import trash, probably maybe even simply taking it for free from countries with landfill charges, take out what isn't compostable and just pump out fertilizer from that instead of importing it. Idk, I think i was just inspired reading about how Japan got most of its iron/steel during ww2 from American scrap metal
Excellent idea -- but currently it is more expensive to ship reusable materials than it is to bury it, burn it, or send it to a poor country in the global south where it ends up in a river then makes its way to the great garbage patch in the Pacific. We people de-prioritize some really important stuff. You're right -- but the focus has to shift economically away from endless money printing and ever-increasing profits. We need economics that focus around human need first. Reward companies for putting people first, rather than capital. Until that happens, or I don't know -- luxury communism under fusion energy happens first -- (you know, where scarcity basically disappears at scale because we can suddenly apply energy to big projects like global water access via desalinization and vertical farms in low-food-density areas like the desert, etc.) -- we probably will continue to be under the thumb of this shitty system. Nobody wants to fight the powerful. Not really.