I am looking for ideas on what products should be produced locally. Not things that your area can do sn awesome job at and export. Rather things that should be locally produced near everyone.

Feel free to define “locally” as you wish. I am thinking with 5 miles, but with 200 is also good.

Please include your reasoning. Everything from shipping costs, to ownership “punch-ability” are great.

I will kick things off in the comments.

  • bob_omb_battlefield
    5·
    3 days ago

    I think you need a forest, a pulp mill, and a paper mill. The forest might be the hardest part in a lot of places…

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
      2·
      3 days ago

      Hopefully with more recycling than new forests, but otherwise that sounds about right. Guess it really depends what we consider as local. Suburb level, probably not viable, but state level, definitely.

        • CameronDev@programming.dev
          3·
          2 days ago

          Of course, but even still, those areas are usually ex-natural forests, so the more paper that can be reclaiming via recycling, the less demand for clearing the natural forests. And its probably less energy intensive to recycle than to start from scratch.