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“ I’ve been saying this for years. We’ll be exploring landfills soon after they’re no longer viable for producing methane gas. Meanwhile, states that refused to bury, and opted to dump their garbage elsewhere will be kicking themselves - hard. Such “exhausted” landfills will be packed with little more than inorganic waste, like easily harvested metals. Point at anything on the periodic table and it’ll exist in a landfill at concentrations far higher than what exists in ore deposits we’re mining today; so this will be ridiculously profitable. Add to that the fact that they’re all close to home, and you have yourself an industry that does a brisk business in mining landfills. And since all the stinky stuff has long since decomposed, you only have heavy-metals and toxic runoff to worry about (read: just like a normal mine). After that, companies will look to cut out the middle man and buy back everyone’s e-waste after the recycling plant has sorted it out. So the landfill will dissapear, leaving a closed loop from the recovery of raw materials all the way to the consumer and back again.
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No! I’ve been saying this for years. must of read it somewhere