landfills and dumps

a blog about your garbage. landfills, dumps, and junkyards *some recycling facilities may be mixed in, i will try to tag them as such. for the most part, these are permanent landfills - where your trash goes and stays forever. (i try to source photographers and sites as much as possible. if i've posted your work and you wish it sourced/removed, please send me a message.)

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Veolia operates Tovlan Landfill located in the occupied Jordan Valley, January 2011 (Photo by Who Profits) (x)

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垃圾填埋场：反而成为巨大污染源 (x)

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Landfill of Huangchuan xian, Xinyang City (x)

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Israel, Galilee, The Hagal landfill started operation in 1999 and receives 1200 tons a day. Truck dumps the collected waste (Photostock-Israel: Shay Levy)

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Avondale is using two new Cat 950H high-lift wheel loaders with high tip buckets and a Cat M318D excavator with a Cat G315B sorting grab. (x)

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Photograph of a Calgary, Alberta, landfill by D'Arcy Norman

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Wide shot of rubbish in a Canberra landfill (x)

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The average American produces 4.4 pounds of trash per day

(Source: EPA.gov)

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Garbage Landfill, 1987

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A garbage truck dumps its load at a U.S. landfill. More than 70 percent of the 180 million tons of refuse Americans throw away each year ends up in landfills, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Compacted repeatedly by bulldozers, the inner recesses of landfills receive no light, air, or moisture, making biodegradation impossible. Scientists have even found hotdogs buried in 1974 still intact 15 years later.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Once and Future Landfills," May 1991, National Geographic magazine) Photograph by Dennis Finley

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It's now significantly cheaper to put rubbish into landfill in Queensland than in New South Wales or Victoria after the Newman government scrapped the waste levy. (2012) Photo: Damian White (x)

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A hybrid bulldozer equipped with testing equipment at the Waste Management El Sobrante Landfill in Corona. (x)

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Seminole Road Landfill, DeKalb County, Georgia (Photograph by Rich Addicks)

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Mexico City shuts last landfill, envisions composting, recycling (Photo: Lauren Villagran)

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Atlanta, Georgia (Joeff Davis)

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(Nick Ut/AP)

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(source: @momentumcalgary) 

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A groundwater monitoring report says it's likely contaminated water from the Saskatoon landfill has made it into the South Saskatchewan River. (Josh Pagé/CBC)