Well, I think that each case would have to be assessed individually on what can be stored. The world doesn't have an unlimited source of copper or lithium. We have only a limited availability of critical minerals. Canada has a lot, but you can't just take them out. We have to start looking at the possibilities of recycling minerals, even if it's a minor amount that we have to recycle for now. We need to look at the best ways to do that.
I know that just taking from the land the important critical minerals that the world needs today is part of the solution to meeting the needs of people globally, but the other side of things is how we can do this sustainably. How can we better recycle what we take out of the earth?
We see lots of landfill sites. We see inground storage of waste where there are still mineral components in that storage. We need to look at this. I think there are business opportunities here to do that, but I think industry has a responsibility to help with that, too. There needs to be a plan beyond the extraction of the resources. The plan needs to include how you reuse and recycle all the minerals out of the waste that exists.
There are really good examples around the world in which waste is already being recycled and they are looking at piles of waste. I can't recall all of the names, but I've heard of a couple of examples, and I believe there are examples in Alaska, where they're doing this already. Other parts of the world are looking at this. Lots of the multinational resource development companies are taking this very seriously and looking at ways they can start to become involved in the solution of recycling.