DON'T CALL IT A DUMP!!! (it's a recycling haven)

The biggest working sanitary landfill in the United States, located right outside Los Angeles, is so much more than a garbage dump: it is an environmentally-safe recycling haven where even unrecyclable waste can be turned into clean bioenergy fuels and lots and lots of power (it is one of the largest power generators in the state of California).

Landfills are the nation's second largest source of manmade methane pollution. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and a contributor to the smog air pollution.

While landfills such as Puente Hills in Los Angeles are realizing the economic benefits of capturing and utilizing the energy from methane, there are still hundreds of landfills across the nation missing this critical opportunity.

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[curiosityquest]

Great video! Thank you for sharing.

[TheCaptainLulz]

In countries like pakistan where the waste is relatively non-hazardous they are already combing through dumps for metals. The problem here in the west is the unbelievably toxic nature of our dumps, They really cant be cleaned safely except to incinerate the waste and collect the metals that do not burn. Good vid though.

[2rude4tv]

and they still miss the 95% of the recyclibal material that goes to this & every other dump in the world.

Hell in one day alone how much wood is buried that could be put to better use as plyboard if nothing else?

[nimsh01]

thx m8 !