[zharknado]

I’ve always figured we’ll have robots mining our trash piles in the future for metals and other recyclables. Possibly bespoke, cobbled together, and manually piloted.

Sounds dystopian and probably is, but also I feel like I would kinda enjoy remotely excavating trash as an occasional hobby. You know, hop on the Discord with the gang, make a battle plan, you take the copper wiring, I’ll shore up the tunnel.

[Breza]

I've long wondered what technological advancements would be necessary to make it profitable to mine landfills. There's so much raw material buried in one place.

[etskinner]

It's already profitable, or at least net-zero, it's just not politically correct. Here in Minneapolis (more generally: Hennepin county) we industrially incinerate our trash. The site lists many benefits: https://www.hennepin.us/your-government/facilities/hennepin-...