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rbanffytoday at 4:24 PM0 repliesview on HN

In a couple million years, what you’ll see are the mineral deposits where dumpsters are today, with all the materials that are not economically viable to recycle, but that will remain as they were for very long times - metal alloys, rocks that shouldn’t have formed at that time and place, oil deposits where plastics were that appear much older than the adjacent substrate in carbon dating, and so on.

The shape is erased, but the chemical composition mostly remains.