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I have my inventory filled with crap at the moment, and there seems to be no simple way of disposing it. Sure, I can press "drop" to drop it at the mouse cursor one element at a time, but with my inventory stuffed with 50X stacks all over the place, it becomes really tedious.

How can I destroy items, or somehow mass-drop them? Is this something that's planned? Is it already here, or am I missing something?

What's currently the best way of disposing off items?

There are several ways.

The easiest: Put all you not need in a (wooden) chest and hit "C".
Some items can be burned. https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fuel
Burner inserters have their usages: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... r_inserter
There is the method I currently like most: Put all you don't need in a wagon, which is placed anywhere central. When a train comes by and stops because the wagon is standing in the block, just remove the signal. Nice.

Generally the devs stated, that this is not a big issue, even if there are many suggestion about "Recycling" and so on.

I moved this into gameplay and left a link here in suggestions, cause this is "just a beginner question"

I always use active provider chests as "trashbin" - the robots come and collect everything to store it in storage chests.
Nothing is lost and your inventory is empty.

Regarding mass-dropping all of the items in your inventory, this is possible if you open a chest and use the "inventory transfer" key binding and click on an empty space in your inventory. Mine is assigned to control-shift left-click but I think that's different then the default. This is really nice if you have logistics setup to re-give you the important items. Instant clean inventory.