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

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Although attempts at regulation and re-use abounded, most met with societal, economic and/or political failure. Of the 251 million tons (228 million metric tons) of trash, or solid waste, generated in the United States in 2006, about 81.8 Most however, were dry tomb landfills. No new landfills were created past that date.