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Landfilling
Title: Landfilling
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1532 | Pages: 6.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Landfilling
It has long been believed that the largest entity brought upon the Earth by
humankind is the Pyramid of the Sun, constructed in Mexico around the start
of the Christian era. The mammoth structure commands nearly thirty million
cubic feet of space. In contrast, however, is the Durham Road Landfill,
outside San Francisco, which occupies over seventy million cubic feet of the
biosphere. It is a sad monument, indeed, to the excesses of modern society
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…showed last 75 words of 1532 total…to Earth-friendly uses,
such as making barrier reefs. Plans for the safe incineration of refuse to
generate electric power have presented some highly contentious issues. The
ash from such incinerators is normally highly toxic, since it concentrates
existing toxins, and must be disposed of as such. Citizens object to these
plants, in a frenzy of Not-In-My-Backyard syndrome. A clear-cut answer is
probably non-existent. Several effective programs, enacted in unison, will
probably lead us to success.
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