Americans tossed 292.4 million tons of trash into landfills in 2018, or about 5 pounds of garbage per person per day. Once in a landfill, much of that trash undergoes some wild chemistry, often polluting the surrounding area. But amid all the stinking refuse is potentially valuable material, and some environmentalists…
Americans tossed 292.4 million tons of trash into landfills in 2018, or about 5 pounds of garbage per person per day. Once in a landfill, much of that trash undergoes some wild chemistry, often polluting the surrounding area. But amid all the stinking refuse is potentially valuable material, and some environmentalists…Read more… Read More landfill, landfill mining, waste, landfills in the united states, landfills in the united kingdom, energy conversion, municipal solid waste, travis p wagner, recycling, environment, waste management, surface mining, helena da silva maciel xavier, jeff Gizmodo
