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Landfills are highly concentrated stores of resources. Why would future archaeologists be the only ones interested in them?
by 01100011 7y ago
Landfills are highly concentrated stores of resources. Why would future archaeologists be the only ones interested in them?
- rikroots 7y agoI went Googling for an answer to refute your statement and came across this article from Science Daily - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180323090958.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180323090958.h... - that supports your argument. In my view, the key barriers to landfill mining are the same as those faced by today's recycling industry: the costs involved in extracting value from waste (someone has to pay the pickers working in the recycling sheds - possibly one of the worst jobs in the world); and finding viable, stable and sustainable markets for the materials that do get extracted. Volatile recyclate markets were a huge problem for sustainable recycling back in 2000 and I doubt much has changed since then.