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.
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