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Until you go to your local landfill and see the massive fuming hellscape spanning thousands of acres with mountains of garbage just laying there and mentally ex
by Solvency 3y ago
Until you go to your local landfill and see the massive fuming hellscape spanning thousands of acres with mountains of garbage just laying there and mentally extrapolate how it will look even 10 more years from now.
- gruez 3y ago>and mentally extrapolate how it will look even 10 more years from now. I did some napkin math and concluded that it's a non-issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407111
- rascul 3y agoIt can look like this https://freshkillspark.org/ https://freshkillspark.org/
- SteveNuts 3y agoThus, solving the problem once and for all!
- astrange 3y agoMy local landfill is at the southern end of San Francisco Bay and there really isn't anything notable about it.
- justinator 3y agoThe landfill here in town has a sledding hill, swimming pool, jungle gym, and a skate park. It was in the hinterlands of the town, but the town grew fast.
- sanswork 3y agoThe largest landfill in the US was only 700acres after almost 60 years in operation supporting LA.
- tempusr 3y agoor ~1 square mile or ~3 square kilometers