Thank your ancestors, who were to lazy to recycle and treat the rest in a thermic process upfront.
It bet those landfills could have easily been only one third the size and close to non-toxic.
When generations cheap out, it's always one of the next who suffers.
Pains me.
Recycling is mostly a lie. Plastic can’t really be usefully recycled. Glass would need to be sorted by color, which is infeasible. There is already more paper and cardboard than can be consumed. Clean aluminum and steel containers recycle well, but are not a lot of volume, and don’t burn.
>>Any odors coming from the Chiquita Canyon Landfill are related to an abnormal biotic or abiotic process (also known as a landfill reaction) taking place deep within a lined, but older and inactive portion of the Landfill waste mass. This reaction is not a fire or subsurface oxidation event within the waste mass, and is not related to waste disposal operations at the Landfill.
> "In a worst case scenario, the hillside can liquefy and actually slide into the community," Assembly member Pilar Schiavo, D-Santa Clarita, said at a news conference last month.
Once again, proving that Idiocracy (2006) was prophetic, and not just satire.
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[ 1.6 ms ] story [ 6.9 ms ] threadWhen generations cheap out, it's always one of the next who suffers. Pains me.
https://chiquitacanyon.com/odor-mitigation/recent-updates/
>>Any odors coming from the Chiquita Canyon Landfill are related to an abnormal biotic or abiotic process (also known as a landfill reaction) taking place deep within a lined, but older and inactive portion of the Landfill waste mass. This reaction is not a fire or subsurface oxidation event within the waste mass, and is not related to waste disposal operations at the Landfill.
Once again, proving that Idiocracy (2006) was prophetic, and not just satire.