Land Fills

Recycling has only become a fad in industrialized countries in recent years. Consequently, land fills could be a rich source of raw materials. Land fills could be mined for wire, scraps of metal, sheet metal - to be used as is or melted down into ores. This would be a far more effective way of securing metals, for an individual or small group, than conventional mines. Broken glass could also be salvaged and melted down to be re-blown.

Offered by Nancy.

Yes, landfills will be a place to get materials but they also are a dangerous explosive place because of methane and hazardous materials (poisons) that for so many years were dumped and mingled because of no restrictions that are nearly impossible to enforce today. It is hard to find the things you need in landfills because you never know if you are going to dig up what you need. Most likely you will find a lot of what you don't need. Like disease (pathogens) and it would be better to let these chemical stew pots pop and sizzle for another 200 years or so to get most of the nasty reactions out of the way. It would be better to use things found in auto bone yards and what will be cluttering the streets, as there won't be much gasoline to use anyway and we will need that for farming.

Offered by Glen.