View source for Landfill Mining and Reclamation

=Basics=
*Essentially [[Strip Mining]] but of [[Landfills]]
*Easier with modern landfills, but can be done with old (even informal) ones.
*In older ones, it can even be of historic value (like a time capsule of sorts, anthropologists, and archeologits do this with old "mounds" with mainly shells and bones of food, but this is a similar modern form)
*Leads to:
**Recovered Recyclable Materials (Metal, Glass, Plastic, Misc)
**Recovered Soil/Clay (cover material)
**Recovered Aggregate Materials
**Sometimes Methane Gas (if captured and not released)
**Typically large Sulfur Compound Gasses, and Mixed Chemical Leachate, which is toxic, but can be processed into useful products
**[[Refuse Derived Fuel]] (sort of like biomass, but much more unpredictable)
***This can in turn be made into [[Syngas]] and [[Slag]]
*Finally the land is returned to it's natural state and/or develped

=Internal Links=
*[[Gasification]]
*[[Recycling]]

=External Links=
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining The Wikipedia Page on Landfill Mining and Reclamation]