Reclamation Industry in Charnea
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The Reclamation Industry is the sector of the Charnean resource industries dealing with resource recovery and recycling. In many areas, reclamation has presented a cost effective and resource efficient alternative to conventional mineral extraction and processing of raw materials, leading to its widespread development in Charnea. Reclamation can broadly be categorized into three specializations. Material recycling is by far the most economically lucrative and involves the extraction of important industrial raw materials like plastics, metals, and glass. The second category is water reclamation, which is vital for the arid desert nation, and involves various means of wastewater treatment and reuse. Finally, there is bioreclamation which represents a newer and less developed sub-sector of the reclamation industry dealing with the repurposing of waste biomass and food waste, usually redirected for production of biofuels.
Many factors have influenced the development of the reclamation industry since the beginning of Charnean industrialization in the early 20th century. The first and most obvious of these is the constant shortage of vital resources to be found in the Charnean landscape. Water in particular, but also fuels, metals, and other materials were hard to come by during various periods, especially in the early stages in the industrialization process, making the reuse of what was already in circulation an economically beneficial and financially sound practice. Once the industry was already established, it began to expand internationally into the business of buying up waste from the surrounding industrialized nations in order to reclaim useful materials. This was viable during the second half of the 20th century thanks in large part to the low cost of Charnean labor in that era, leading to a boom era in the reclamation industry during which many important resource firms invested in large facilities and training of the immense reclamation workforce. However, this heyday of the reclamation sector would come to pass with the consistent rising of labor costs across Charnea as the nation's population became richer and better educated. The result was a migration of parts of the recycling business to Itayana and the Amayana Makgato Federation, and the consolidation of the remaining industry under the Gamo Harawas Corporation, subsidiary of the Rasul Combine.