Buried treasure - by Charles Redell
The rising price of metals could jumpstart another way to use what we’ve already thrown out: landfill mining. First tried in Israel in the 1950s, landfill mining is exactly what it sounds like: digging up landfills and extracting resources (mainly metal) from the mounds of trash.
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The rising price of metals could jumpstart another way to use what we’ve already thrown out: landfill mining. First tried in Israel in the 1950s, landfill mining is exactly what it sounds like: digging up landfills and extracting resources (mainly metal) from the mounds of trash.
