So, to continue on, I just figured I had to better explain what GARBAGE MINING is because it's so amazing!!! For my one reader (Thanks for reading this, Jane):
"Management of MSW raises questions about the capacity of future generations to reduce some of the intergenerational risk sources. For example, will future generations be able to find more benign ways to treat waste, come up with methods to make land safe for any future use, or develop recycling technologies that can expand the range of materials treated? Landfill mining -- whereby waste is abstracted from closed landfills for recycling, usually to extend void space capacity -- is already a reality. If such an argument can be sustained, basic storage of present waste might become an acceptable option, although this does not prevent intragenerational risks in the even of storage failure, institutional failure, or both." (Petts 2000:825)
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