Thursday, July 5, 2012

'Garbology' Book By Edward Humes Examines Trash In America


And might this place be a perfect candidate for end-to-end recycling? Assuming they have access to large and continuing supplies of water (which could be raw sea water for this purpose).

The plant I conceived takes in ALL raw mterials from garbage, shreds, then separates acording to density using water as a vehicle within the process. Water used in the process itself is cheaned to "fresh" and recycled into the environment for agriculture, as are the compost materials from organic waste. On this basis every landfill, thousands of them, are "mines" with valuable raw materials, able to be separated and recycled into useful streams of raw materials for manufacturing and other uses. The are many potential clients, and many more would develop as "tipping points" were reached that saw costs of recovered/recycled materials earn a premium value over those that have to be mined and developed from ever more difficult environments.
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