Gold in That Garbage - Landfill Mining

In the next few years you will see a new industry sprout up around North America - Landfill Mining. Yes, people in HazMat suits along with heavy equipment will begin to dismantle the thousands of landfill sites in search of recyclable, reclaimable, and reusable trash.

Let's face it, how many of us have thrown away batteries, or obsolete electronics, or glassware, or paper, or aluminum cans or plastic or ... ? Yes, all of us, and we have been doing it for decades, and that stuff for the most part does NOT decompose.

This new industry will reach a billion dollars in a very short time. Cities will pay to have these landfills mined to reduce their sizes, corporations will pay to buy the outputs from these mining operations, and in theory the environment will be the ultimate winner.

General Motors to Improve Gas Mileage by Switching to Imperial Gallons

In its ongoing efforts to produce higher gas mileage ratings, General Motors (GM) has announced that it will now report fuel economy ratings in Imperial Gallons in the US. In a press release GM spokesperson, Brent Dewar wrote, "as General Motors continues to focus on the greening of its corporate programs, and in better reflecting the needs of the planet with our ongoing work in alternative fuel vehicles, such as the all electric Volt, or our E85 Flex Fuel products, we are very happy to announce the conversion of our miles per gallon (MPG) ratings based on the imperial gallon."

This means that GM will have an instance increase in mileage ratings of 17%. For example, the popular Chevy Malibu will go from a MPG rating of 31.6 (US Gallons) to 38 (Imperial Gallons).

For more info, please go to: http://www.gm.com/corporate/