“Vision 2030 for Wastes Management” Steve Lee CEO, Chartered Institution of Wastes Management

the surface is all garbage…..the maid robot puts the trash in a compactor. It all goes down to the ground...and the buildings are on lifts so as the refuse piles up, the house tops rise away from it The Jetsons 2062

Trash pickup ‘robots’ to begin rolling out in Hamden

There is a serious angle to all of this “Extended conflict, Social disruption, war essentially, over much of the world,..for many decades”. Nick Stern

.....and he’s not alone: Dambisa Moyo implications for the world’s commodity resources are stark and sobering. Global demand for food and water is expected to increase by 50% and 30% respectively by pressure on lead, zinc and corn is already becoming unsustainable and no-one has a clue where the energy we’ll need is going to come from

Janez Potocnik IN 20 th century: Population x 4 Water use x 9 Fossil Fuel use.... x 16 Fish catch x 35 Economy x 40 “ de-materialise not de-industrialise” “Even if no financial crisis, EU would still be facing long term resource crisis. Green economy and resource efficiency only way forward” [tweet ]

Chatham House report Dec The spectre of resource insecurity has come back with a vengeance. Whether or not resources are actually running out, the outlook is one of supply disruptions, volatile prices, accelerated environmental degradation and rising political tensions over resource access

Consensus Judgments of all 16 U.S. Intelligence Agencies....what sets the next quarter century apart is 7 “tectonic shifts” combining to drive change at an accelerating rate: the growth of the middle class, aging populations, urbanization, wider access to new technologies, shifting economic power, growing demand for food and water, and energy independence

Source: UNEP Recycling Rates of Metals – a status report 2011 Keeping Resources Working

Commodity “Prices”

Space Mining?....oh yes!

Moon mining race under way Google prize :1st co to land a robot on the moon, with the eventual aim of mining [BBC website ] $20m 1st privately-funded co to land a robot on the moon + explore the surface by moving at least 500m + send hi def video to Earth by 2015 $5m second-place bonus prizes: travelling more than 5km, finding water and discovering any traces of man's past on the moon, eg the Apollo site

NASA will likely get $100 million next year to jump-start an audacious program to drag an asteroid into orbit around the moon for research and exploration purposes, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., says NBC

Global Carbon “Budget” theguardian.comtheguardian.com, Tuesday 26 November 2013

ESA‘s " Sustainable Materials Concepts“ materials that could be reused as biological or technical nutrients - serving as resources for new / other processes. inspired by the sustainable "cradle to cradle" approach explored by terrestrial industry, where all the raw materials in a product can be later reused for another product, or consumed as food, with no waste residue and no loss in quality. planetary probes or satellites might become sources of fuel, water or other raw materials considered scarce for the exploration missions that come after them. Read more at: ntentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst ntentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst