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I live five miles north of a landfill and think this every time I drive by it… the smell is unbelievably bad, yet property still sells there.  There’s a public park in Virginia called Mount Trashmore, built on top of a landfill!
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Landfills are actually pretty high-tech these days. They engineer them to have good drainage that gets the water filtered before putting it into the aquifer. Many have methane capture systems that generate electricity, too. >

Oh I agree, it's just the overall volume of material is still increasing.... My concern is these other advancements are only at the margins >

I heard that If the USA was a football field, we could fit all our trash for the next 1000 years in just 1 inch. I'm not worried about space to put it, I'm more concerned with recovering rare earth metals and such from the things we throw out >

Most of Manhattan would say it worked out really well. Since they are living on old land fill. >

Looking at it now, they're gonna be living in a new landfill pretty soon >

I think landfills are probably better than burning everything, which is probably the other option. We should recycle what we can, of course, but I’m fine with burying the rest, if done responsibly.