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Environment & Energy

dixiegrrrrl

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3. "comprised mainly of iron, concrete & plastic. "

Reply to Nihil (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 10, 2012, 11:36 AM

Sep 2012

I have long said that, in not too many coming years, if we are still alive, all the landfills/dumps here will be mined for plastic.
As indeed is being done in India, The Phillipines, by entire generations of families who live off what they can scavage from landfills.

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