Whenever someone brings up the topic of landfills, I automatically picture a bunch of Pixar's little Wall-e robots stacking cubes of trash to the height of sky scrapers. I didn't realize until now that the height of the landfill isn't nearly as dangerous as the stuff leaking out from it.
Scarboro Landfill in Maryland is a landfill that is constantly leaking leachate (a liquid run off from organic garbage) into a creek and into the surrounding water table. This stuff can be extremely poisonous and possibly cause death. For more info go to http://www.stopthedump.net/index.html
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