Not to discount the loss of life but the amount of pollution of the air, water and soil that resulted from wherever this was.
On top of that, all of this must be landfilled or recycled. Much of this is toxic waste from plastics, vinyl and such.
The amount of diesel, gasoline powering the equipment to dismantle and transport the waste is mind boggling.

It’s different when one is building a major infrastructure project requiring great inputs of energy where the benefit lasts for decades or more.

I used to recycle everything until I discovered that plastics were sent overseas until those countries would not take them anymore.
How did they deal with our waste???
It was a feel good operation.