Prize in the sky

• Autores: Paul Marks
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2975, 2014, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Marks talks about landfill mining. With hordes of cheap orbiters filling the skies, researchers and start-ups are promising a powerful new perspective on earthly activities that range from global commerce to perfecting the art of mining landfills for recyclable materials. Landfill mining isn't new, but it's tremendously expensive. There are 25,000 active or historic landfills in the UK, but finding out what might be in them means drilling about a hundred 25-meter-deep holes into each one to extract core samples. Still, the incentive to mine landfills is large.