I have collected a lot of stuff out of other peoples discarded items that I saw value in keeping, like electric fans that only needed cleaning and a little lubrication, for example. My house is full of such items of value but what is striking to me is that all these non-biodegradable things have come from this planets natural resources that science and engineering have manipulated into un-natural man made chemicals and materials. Look around and all you’ll see mostly, is stuff made here on Earth. That’s what we should put on the labels. “Made on Earth exclusively from 100% Earth fabricated materials. Discard hazardous waste on some un-safe populated part of our world.”
We are just too proud of discovering and creating new technology for our own good. We should have learned this lesson back when we discovered how to build the atomic bomb. Which, ironically, has only been improved upon.