06 October 2008

Could landfills resurrect Britain’s mining industry?
Imagine an air-tight dome with teams of robots working alongside people in space suits as they sift through the corrosive waste of past generations, looking for scraps of plastic and nuggets of precious metals.

This isn’t the opening scene of the latest Sci-Fi movie to hit our screens, but the vision of one of the leading thinkers of the British waste industry, describing how landfill mining might look a few decades down the line.

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