>Assuming that garbage has the same density of water It is probably much less dense. >Moreover, Wikipedia says Switzerland has 15,940 square miles of land, so

>Assuming that garbage has the same density of water It is probably much less dense. >Moreover, Wikipedia says Switzerland has 15,940 square miles of land, so that will only take up 0.006% of the country's land area. I do not think many landfills are located in mountains and Switzerland is fairly mountainous. The available livable and arable land is a fraction of its total land area.