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Is this what post-scarcity is going to be like?
When we get desperate enough for scarce resources we’ll start digging in our trash heaps. I’m surprised we haven’t started yet.
Google “landfill mining”. It’s being researched. So far the economics of what could be recovered don’t outweigh the costs, but they might eventually. Current mining mostly concentrates on remediating older unlined fills and moving the waste to a lined fill.
https://gizmodo.com/landfill-mining-metal-recovery-trash-recycling-ewaste-1850151569
