A BMG Concept Brief on Closing the Reclamation Loop The first three pieces in this series argued that American landfills are inventory, that the cities
Day: 10 May 2026
The Tin Can Was Steel:
A Hidden Inheritance in American Landfills There is a story we tell ourselves about American industrial history that goes something like this: we used to
Johnstown’s Next Mill:
A Proposal to Turn Closed Industrial Capacity Into the Region’s Material Recovery Sector A BMG Concept Brief Johnstown is a city built to process material
Future Mining
The Hundred-Year Inheritance: Why America’s Landfills Are the Next Material Frontier The headlines about landfill capacity want to be a problem. They will be, if
Part 2 The previous piece argued that we already know how to be citizens. We do it every Sunday at one o’clock and every Friday
George Washington did not fear disagreement. He feared factions. The distinction matters. Washington had commanded men from every colony, every accent, every grievance, and he