London: A waste management company has revealed that it is planning to collect tens of thousands of dust from the city’s pavements to turn it into cash. According to the Sunday Times, Veolia Environment has said that it can extract precious metals such as platinum, palladium and rhodium to recycle them. “The precious metals are in trace amounts but they are quite valuable,” the Daily Mail quoted Richard |
A waste management firm is planning to collect tens of thousands of dust from London’s pavements to turn it into cash. Reuters |
Kirkman, Head of technology and waste as saying.“We have brought together two technologies — conventional soil washing, which removes plastics and metals and glass from street sweepings, and a technique that we use to remove palladium from the fine dust that is left after we have washed the soil,” he stated.Read Full: London streets ‘paved with precious metals like platinum’ - Indian Express
