chris quinnell has been shifting waste in wiltshire for the last three years. om your experience, chris, is this the kind of thing you see every time there's a load of waste dumped here? and what you're dealing with is mainly plastic. yeah, definitely. these days, because everything is sorted out, the wood, the metals have been taken out on the majority of the loads and that's basically what you get left with. it is quite shocking to see how much plastic is here? and this is, you know, a relatively small landfill site, isn't it? yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. i mean, it has been noticeably more plastic in the last few years, so, what do you do with it? where does it go? how can you recycle this sort of stuff? that's a question scientist dr stuart wagland is attempting to answer. he is part of a europe—wide push to promote enhanced landfill mining. enhanced landfill mining is the concept that we can recover maximum value from landfills, so we can reclaim the majority of resources which are contained within the landfills, we can reclaim the land for development, an