All over the world, countries, companies, and people are turning trash into treasure. What starts as old milk cartons, tires, or seaweed becomes bricks, tiles, and boxes used for things such as paving roads and building homes. In the following video we see Business Insider’s visit to places like Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico, and Thailand where they see if garbage is the building material of the future.
All over the world, countries, companies, and people are turning trash into treasure. What starts as old milk cartons, tires, or seaweed becomes bricks, tiles, and boxes used for things such as paving roads and building homes.
In the following video from Business Insider, we see how places like Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico, and Thailand use garbage as the building material of the future.
One ton of circuit boards contains about 100 times more gold than a ton of ore mined from the ground. Now, scrappers like Wade Cawley in Sydney, Australia, are cashing in.
In the following video, from Business Insider, we see how he has partnered with Mint Innovation, a company that uses microbes to recover precious metals from electronics. In a single day, Mint can salvage up to $85,000 of gold in their new recycling facility.