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Re:High-Tech can’t last: there are limited essential elements by pjc50 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:23AM (#20163795)
Copper is highly recyclable. The risk of high copper prices is that it becomes a little too recycleable, and criminals destroy your infrastructure in order to sell it for scrap.
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Re:High-Tech can’t last: there are limited essential elements by glaurung_ on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:51AM (#20165229)
I suspect that in the not too distant future (perhaps in my lifetime) there will be companies buying up landfills in order to mine them for recyclable materials.
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Re:High-Tech can’t last: there are limited essential elements by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:08PM (#20166865)
And isn't it helpful of us to have concentrated the recyclable materials in a few locations?
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Re:High-Tech can’t last: there are limited essential elements by cosmodisk on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @05:10PM (#20169343)
The future is now!:) Google landfill mining, there are companies that already do it.
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Re:High-Tech can’t last: there are limited essential elements by sixhobbits on Thursday June 13, 2019 @12:54PM (#20176620)
Exactly this is already a major problem in South Africa.
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