There's gold in those landfills.

[Baitball Blogger]

I always wondered if there would come a day when speculators would buy up landfills because there was something profitable about digging up the trash. If so, can anyone guess what we buried fifty years ago that might be worth digging up fifty years from now?

[Tobin S.]

1. I go to landfills frequently as a part of my job

I mainly haul scrap metal for a living, but I do a trash load here and there. About the only thing I can think of that might have a little value in the future would be the amount of plastic that ends up there. I guess that currently there are some types of plastics that either aren't recyclable or are not cost effect to recycle. Maybe that will change in the future.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. I remember once we visited the dump and I found a cantaloupe size geode.

It had cracked open and I picked up the loose crystal rock.

What a strange thing to find in a dump. Apparently those kind of things didn't have much value forty years ago.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. I seriously believe that a lot of plastic

will be valued for melt down recycling, one day.
Plastic bags take many years to decompose on their own.
I too see that landfills will be mined, in the near future.