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I suspect that what they do at the end of the day/week has a lot to do with that. The ones around here bulldoze a dirt cover over the freshly arrived stuff to seal it in. That way it doesn’t blow away and the smell is reduced.

Of course sealing all the bulldozed and compacted material also SEALS is from much/most of the air needed for decay. Stuff in landfills can last for decades (as you saw) which of course is NOT what was intended.

The law of unintended consequences casts a wide net – and a HUGE pile of garbage that never decays.

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Whoa.

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There was an old landfill near my childhood home in Austin. It was closed and eventually the land was developed into a massive apartment complex with “floating foundations”. A number of years later, they had to condemn much of the development and move everyone out due to off gassing of methane into the units. Years later, they performed some type of remediation and revived the development.

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