"Before its acquisition he had been the cofounder and technical director of a small company called Dumpmines, which was in the business of digging up and proces

"Before its acquisition he had been the cofounder and technical director of a small company called Dumpmines, which was in the business of digging up and processing old landfills, recovering the valuable materials that had been thrown away in a more wasteful age. It had been a surprise when Praxis had acquired them, a very pleasant surprise, as everyone in Dumpmines went from employment in a small firm to apprentice membership in one of the richest organizations in the world - paid in its shares, voting on its policy, free to use all its resources. It was like being knighted." - Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars, 1993.