Nov 9th, 2016: Trash to Treasure

[xoxoxoBruce]

Seems one mans trash is another man's treasure.
The Covanta trash to steam plant in where my trash goes by law.
It's illegal for trash haulers in this county to take it anywhere else.

[There’s a Covanta Holding Corp. incinerator outside Philadelphia that produces electricity from burning garbage.
It also produces something else: stacks and stacks of blackened, sooty coins.

Over the course of a year, those nickels, dimes and quarters add up to about $360,000. That’s seven times
the average income in the Philadelphia metropolitan region, and the money is piling up as Covanta waits for the
U.S. Mint to resume coin purchases under an exchange program it suspended in November.

What? People throwing away money?

About $61.8 million of loose change is accidentally thrown away every year in the U.S., Covanta estimates.
The coins get swept off restaurant tables, mixed in with scraps when people empty their pockets, and vacuumed
up from carpets or sofa cushions. The money used to end up in the dump, but as trash volume increases and
open space dwindles, landfill-disposal costs are up 25 percent in the past decade. That’s created an incentive
for Covanta and other companies to develop ways to sift through mountains of garbage and extract steel, iron,
aluminum and copper for sale to recyclers.

That shows just how fat this country is.
I've sucked up coins with My central vacuum system , but my vacuum doesn't get dumped in the trash.
The last time it sucked up my hearing aid, what a pain in the ass in was to dig that out.
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