To Trash Is Human
With the industrial age came large scale landfills. Total
avoidance of human waste is nearly impossible given current technologies and
for the foreseeable future. Environmentalists hate them. People do not want
them in their neighborhood. And so on …
Mining For Trash
Not only future archeologists will be delighted about
landfills, but landfills have the potential to become a major resource for
future resource mining operations.
A Feast For Microbes Or Robots
It is quite conceivable that in the not so distant
future, bioengineered microbes and/or robots will convert anthropogenic trash
into something useful.
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