Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner

Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by beamatronic on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:41PM (#25781328)

You can be sure that once all the fossil fuels are gone, and society has collapsed beyond the point of return, the remaining humans will be mining our dumps for useful items. Wars will be fought over these scraps.

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by aardvarkr on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:51PM (#25781501)

We’re already mining landfills actually. Pretty interesting concept if you ask me. The concentration of valuable elements is far higher than what you’d find in the wild.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by leviathant on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:52PM (#25781534)

I like to think that a long time from now, people will marvel that we overlooked the (as of yet undiscovered) utility of used scoopable cat litter, and just threw it out with the trash

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by majormajor on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:17PM (#25781892)

We already did this in the past for dog poop: https://www.vettimes.co.uk/app/uploads/wp-post-to-pdf-enhanc...

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