Did you know there are abandoned mines in the Grand Canyon? Actually it's not that uncommon for parks in the desert southwest to have a few abandoned mines located within their borders. The mine we stumbled across in the Grand Canyon just so happened to be a uranium mine... there were signs up all over the place cautioning against going further in a particular direction due to radiation. At what I assume was a safe distance from the mine we came across piles of old and rusted cans. Most seemed like food or drink cans but we also saw old fuel canisters and some other unidentifiable things, and it got me thinking: when does trash become historical artifacts? At what point does somebody go "no, we can't pick up that litter any more, it's part of history"? I mean clearly the metal cans above were thrown aside once they had served their purpose, and nobody back when the mine was in operation thought any more about them, but why should we care?
Leave me a comment below and tell me your views on this. Is stuff like this history? Or trash?
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