Landfills are becoming large concentrations of materials like plastic, aluminum and other. What part of the process of mining landfills and processing the materials for new products, makes mining raw materials from the earth and processing them cheaper?

Question

Landfills are becoming large concentrations of materials like plastic, aluminum and other. What part of the process of mining landfills and processing the materials for new products, makes mining raw materials from the earth and processing them cheaper?

In: Economics

Answer 1

In movies and tv there will often be inmates on the side of the road picking up trash. I don’t know if this actually ever happens… but I always thought it would be a good idea to put them to work in a landfill instead to sort out the recyclables.