London Streets Paved With Platinum in $6 Billion Push by Veolia
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Veolia Environnement SA is sweeping Britain’s streets for the platinum and other precious metals that can be sifted from the grime.
The French waste and water company built a factory at Ling Hall in Warwickshire to extract rare metals blown out of vehicle exhaust filters and onto roads and sidewalks. It stumbled upon this “urban mining” after sorting refuse to try to reduce waste sent to landfills, Estelle Brachlianoff, U.K. and Ireland executive vice-president, said yesterday in Paris.