Urban Mines

Virgin metals such as iron, copper and gold are extracted from the mines. A country with abundant of mines is rich as natural resources are getting scarce now. While every nation looks elsewhere beyond their boundaries to search for metals, the Japanese is talking about exploring the urban mines in their cities. To them, the rubbish we generated daily has variety of metals. It is matter of extracting them. If this is true, then the urban with its daily generation of waste is becoming a mining area. For example, gold, copper, platinum can be extracted from the mobile phone and similarly from most of the home appliances. I think this concept of attaching economical value onto recycling initiative has larger impact. As money is uncovered there in the dump site, the possibility of getting businesses toward the solution of waste management will be higher. So, for those pioneer and skillful enough to extract the metals and valuable items from the waste, it is as good as owning a mine, in the urban area.