Talking Trash: Lessons from a Landfill
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Monday, Dec. 7, 2009 | 12:01 a.m.
At 12,000 acres, Apex Landfill is the biggest landfill in the country, and it's located just outside Las Vegas. Apex General Manager Mark Clinker shows the dirty journey of trash, from curbs, to the dumping sites at Apex to its methane-forming decomposition.
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Sorry, Waste Management owns Storey County. That makes the Lockwood landfill the 'biggest' at 168,960 acres.