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Why not? You can still live on top of a landfill. Is it better that we live on top of some ecologically inactive rocks instead?

• dTal 6y ago
  I don't believe you can live on top of a landfill; it's too toxic. In fact I don't think you can even build housing on the site of a former landfill.
  • sjg007 6y ago
    Clearly you've never heard of Foster City! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_City,_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_City,_California
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    • dTal 6y ago
      That's "landfill" in the sense of raising the ground level, not in the sense of "dumping trash", which is what we're talking about.
  • aksss 6y ago
    Airports and golf courses, on the other hand.. many uses for surface area besides living. I don’t know (truly) if the issue is really toxicity (in a well designed, reclamated landfill) or the simple fact that city services like sewer, water, gas, electric were never under-grounded there by design. You’d think settlement would be a cause for concern too, but I’d also think they have that solved if airports are made atop them.