People do this currently, although it’s much cheaper to get recently discarded electronics in bulk than try to dig up landfills and clean everything to the point where you can chemically separate the precious metals.
I think about this a lot. Surely that’s going to become big business in the next couple of decades. Because, even though some people recycle, you better believe the huge majority went directly into the landfill.
Yer but you’d be releasing all that gas from decomposing matter from the ground so you’d have to erect a tent or some kind of dome to capture all that.
People do this currently, although it’s much cheaper to get recently discarded electronics in bulk than try to dig up landfills and clean everything to the point where you can chemically separate the precious metals.
That’s sort of already done with e-waste that 1st world countries export
Weirdly I was thinking about this today. Surely they get recycled?
I think about this a lot. Surely that’s going to become big business in the next couple of decades. Because, even though some people recycle, you better believe the huge majority went directly into the landfill.
They’re already doing this in my area.
Yer but you’d be releasing all that gas from decomposing matter from the ground so you’d have to erect a tent or some kind of dome to capture all that.