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- Landfills - A look at landfill issues in Southern California, including pictures, case studies, information sheets, and maps.
- The Basics of Landfills - Construction information, including why landfills fail. Also offers articles and a look at landfill gas as green energy.
- Economic Thought Question: What if We Eliminated Landfills? - Looks at the economics associated with landfills.
- How Stuff Works: Landfills - Complete narrated photographic tour of how a landfill really operates.
- Landfill Gas Project - Technical profile of a landfill gas utilization project in West Los Angeles, California.
- Landfill Pipe and Construction Services Ltd - Specialise in the installation of landfill gas systems, leachate systems and offer technical consultancy services on landfill matters. Includes general information on landfill systems design.
- David Suzuki Foundation: Climate Change : Landfills - Shows the impacts of landfills on ecosystems.
- Landfills - Look at various aspects related to landfills in Northwest Indiana, including soil issues, health, and whether or not they work.
- Landfill Methane Outreach Program - Contains a complete description of the U.S. EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP), including a list of program members, extensive data on landfills in the U.S.
- Landfilling - Graph showing what we do with our garbage, how landfills work, illustrations, and history.
Wikipedia Articles
- List of landfills in Hong Kong - This is a list of landfills in Hong Kong.
- Landfill fire - A landfill fire occurs when garbage collected in a landfill ignites on fire and spreads in the garbage. In landfills that do not cover their garbage with daily cover, biological decomposition, which creates substantial heat, can cause material in the landfills to spontaneously combust.
- Natal Free-Tailed Bat - The Natal Free-Tailed Bat (Mormopterus acetabulosus) is a species of bat found in Ethiopia, Mauritius, Réunion, South Africa, and possibly Madagascar. Its habitat is restricted, and threats include habitat loss due to landfills and tourism.
- Green bin - Green bins are short rigid plastic containers often used to collect compostable materials as a means to divert waste from landfills. In some localities green bins are also used to contain unsorted municipal waste.
- Grasscycling - Grasscycling refers to leaving grass clippings on the lawn when mowing. The term is a portmanteau word combining "grass" and "recycling", and had come into use by at least 1990 as part of the push to reduce the huge quantities of clippings going into landfills, up to half of some cities' summertime waste flow, as 1,000 square feet (93 m2) of lawn can produce 200 to 500 pounds (90 to 225 kg) of clippings a year.