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Landfill mining. Send droids into landfills to find stuff to resell. Easy side would be obvious items like coins, lost jewelry, etc. Intermediate would be colle
by tomcam 4y ago
Landfill mining. Send droids into landfills to find stuff to resell. Easy side would be obvious items like coins, lost jewelry, etc. Intermediate would be collectibles. Moonshot would be difficult recyclables: lithium batteries, gold- or silver-bearing circuit boards, etc.
- minhmeoke 4y agoA similar idea I saw earlier was to collect and recycle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29760422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29760422 It would be great if someone could solve this problem and reduce the amount of microplastics in our oceans, food, and water.