Freefall 1252
Dumpsters. The original fast food
That grill surface is one big slab of diamond. Back home, I could buy a kingdom with it. Here? It's so cheap that people throw them away.
It's organics like wood that are expensive here. On my planet, the garbage dumps are full of wood and old tree bits.
If interstellar travel wasn't so expensive, we could make a good living selling garbage from one planet to another.
Society of Chemical Abundance, or this planet is very rich. Recently, however, telescopes have found a large exoplanet with diamond density (Robot Spike)
As described earlier (cf. Freefall 0553), diamonds are derived as waste from carbon dioxide. But of the most abundant life on the planet -so far only parasites, lichen and algae.