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Reviewing The World’s Landfills – A Future Fictional Business Plan Excerpt

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These regulations were in response to the 2008 – 2020 practice by the more developed nations (where legislation already existed) of dumping waste on other continents. Of the 251 million tons (228 million metric tons) of trash, or solid waste, generated in the United States in 2006, about 81.8 How Landfills Work. million tons (74.2