Wednesday, February 22, 2012

One Man’s Trash, Is Another Man’s Treasure

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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