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Location Unknown, 1987 Photograph by Dennis Finley A garbage truck
dumps its load at a U.S. landfill. More than 70 percent of the 180
million tons of refuse Americans throw away each year ends up in
landfills, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Compacted
repeatedly by bulldozers, the inner recesses of landfills receive no
light, air, or moisture, making biodegradation impossible. Scientists
have even found hotdogs buried in 1974 still intact 15 years later.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not
published in, "Once and Future Landfills," May 1991, National
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