Old Gadgets May Have Turned Japan into Resource-Rich Nation
September 20, 2008 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Trends
Japan’s lack of natural resources was particularly amazing during the 90s, when the country was pegged as the newest economic superpower. Two decades later, Japan’s financial system isn’t what it used to be, but that hasn’t changed its population’s propensity to gadgets, throwing out the old to buy the new. Why is this important? Turns out all that technological garbage may have finally given the country a stockpile of precious metals.
