Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bruce, That is actually a very interesting question. Current land fills are typically very highly engineered to retain water and to seal in escaping gases. Inside there is a relatively hot moist environment. State of the art facilities actually fund a significant portion of the maintenance cost by selling the methane that is tapped just like a natural gas well. So, what will be in the archeological dig? Well, a large percentage of bizarre plastic artifacts that may have been electronic devices or toys or simply packaging. Most of the metal will have been recycled as domestic trash is realitively free of metals and industrial waste is mined for anything of present day value before it is disposed of. It could be very interesting if some graduate sociology students went with some trained archeologists to do a dig on a fairly recent land fill and see what requires cultural knowledge to decipher and what is even twenty years on simply a guess. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 1/13/06, Bruce <bruent@shaw.ca> wrote: > > Don Dory wrote: > > ... > > Today, those images will be at best on a hard drive in some landfill. > > ... No, I don't take my photography so seriously that anyone will > > care about any artistry; but we learn a lot about a culture from > > pottery > > shards and what is in the trash piles. :) > So what might the future learn from those landfills? > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >