Last year while visiting a local landfill, the tour guide hypothesized that a time would come when humankind would have to mine the landfill in order to recover valuable resources. While this is currently taking place to some extent with methane extraction, the implication was that there were products in the landfill that could be [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Landfill’
Japan Starts Mining Old Electronics
October 20th, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Japan, Recylcing 
Tags: Cradle to Cradle, Landfill, Rare Earths 
No Comments »Steamboat Ski Area Moves Toward Zero Waste
August 9th, 2010 Eric Wilson The prospect of climate change has several ski resorts reconsidering their use of natural resources. Last year we wrote about Jiminy Peak in Massachusetts and the steps they had taken to both minimize their consumption of non-renewable resources by installing a wind turbine as well as producing their own energy to cut down on future [...]
Five Friday Facts: Junk Mail
August 6th, 2010 Eric Wilson More than 41.5 billion pieces of mail advertisements were produced and distributed in the U.S in 2005, according to the Worldwatch Institute. It took more than 100 million trees to create all this bulk mail – that’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months. Even though most junk mail [...]
Junkestra: Cleverly Creating Music with Trash from the Dump
August 4th, 2010 Justin Manger Think about what you hear at the landfill or dump near you: the beeping of trucks backing up, hydraulic lifts, seagulls or other birds squawking and circling above, and the overall cacophonous mix of machines sorting and burying our garbage. Classical music, it’s safe to say, does not make the typical list. A San Francisco [...]
Posted in Conservation, Green Products, Justin Manger, Recylcing Tags: Green Product, Landfill, Lifecycle, Waste No Comments »Landfill Near Charleston, S.C. Could Get $1M per Year from Methane Gas
August 31st, 2009 Justin Manger Scanning the local paper during a recent visit to Charleston, S.C., I came upon an article about how Berkeley County is progressing on its plans to sell the methane gas that is produced at the landfill there. According to the Post and Courier, “Officials are negotiating two contracts that could bring the county $1 million [...]
Five Friday Facts
August 14th, 2009 Justin Manger On a per-ton basis, sorting and processing recyclables alone sustain 10 times more jobs than landfilling and incineration. (Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 1997) Recycling and reuse establishments in the U.S. employ approximately 1.1 million people and generate an annual payroll of $37 billion. The U.S. recycling and reuse industry grosses more than $236 annually. (National [...]
What Happens to Our Waste: Visiting a Landfill
April 18th, 2009 Eric Wilson Yesterday, 2nd Green Revolution visited the Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site, commonly referred to as DADS, a landfill serving the greater Denver area. Currently the largest landfill in the state of Colorado and consistently in the top five nationally, DADS handles approximately 12,000 tons of waste a day or 3.7 million tons annually. The site is [...]
