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humanity's most honest monument: a mountain built entirely from things we swore we needed.
means an engineered pit where waste gets buried in layers of trash and soil until it becomes a slow, methane-burping hill.
from from open dumps to sanitary landfills in the 1930s, when cities started covering trash daily to cut rats and smell — the compaction-and-cover method still used today.
biggest onesvisible from space, rivaling small mountains
decomposition speednewspapers found readable after 40 years
gas capturemethane often burned for electricity
lifespanmost fill up within 20 to 30 years