Landfill Mining and Reclamation
From Open Source Ecology
Basics
- Essentially Strip Mining but of Landfills
- Easier with modern landfills, but can be done with old (even informal) ones.
- In older ones, it can even be of historic value (like a time capsule of sorts, anthropologists, and archeologits do this with old "mounds" with mainly shells and bones of food, but this is a similar modern form)
- Leads to:
- Recovered Recyclable Materials (Metal, Glass, Plastic, Misc)
- Recovered Soil/Clay (cover material)
- Recovered Aggregate Materials
- Sometimes Methane Gas (if captured and not released)
- Typically large Sulfur Compound Gasses, and Mixed Chemical Leachate, which is toxic, but can be processed into useful products
- Refuse Derived Fuel (sort of like biomass, but much more unpredictable)
- Finally the land is returned to it's natural state and/or develped
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