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Re:Why Isn't Landfill Mining More Popular? by Solvency on Friday November 24, 2023 @02:04PM (#38407052)
Until you go to your local landfill and see the massive fuming hellscape spanning thousands of acres with mountains of garbage just laying there and mentally extrapolate how it will look even 10 more years from now.
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Re:Why Isn't Landfill Mining More Popular? by justinator on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:36PM (#38408646)
The landfill here in town has a sledding hill, swimming pool, jungle gym, and a skate park. It was in the hinterlands of the town, but the town grew fast.
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Re:Why Isn't Landfill Mining More Popular? by astrange on Friday November 24, 2023 @02:40PM (#38407394)
My local landfill is at the southern end of San Francisco Bay and there really isn't anything notable about it.
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Re:Why Isn't Landfill Mining More Popular? by rascul on Friday November 24, 2023 @02:18PM (#38407189)
It can look like this

https://freshkillspark.org/

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Re:Why Isn't Landfill Mining More Popular? by SteveNuts on Friday November 24, 2023 @02:34PM (#38407335)
Thus, solving the problem once and for all!
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Re:Why Isn't Landfill Mining More Popular? by gruez on Friday November 24, 2023 @02:12PM (#38407124)
>and mentally extrapolate how it will look even 10 more years from now.

I did some napkin math and concluded that it's a non-issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407111

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Re:Why Isn't Landfill Mining More Popular? by sanswork on Friday November 24, 2023 @05:01PM (#38408865)
The largest landfill in the US was only 700acres after almost 60 years in operation supporting LA.
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Re:Why Isn't Landfill Mining More Popular? by tempusr on Friday November 24, 2023 @05:21PM (#38409032)
or ~1 square mile

or ~3 square kilometers

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