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quaint

(3,570 posts) Tue Dec 12, 2023, 11:07 AM Dec 2023

Uncontrolled chemical reactions fuel crises at L.A. County's two largest landfills

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https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-12-12/mysterious-chemical-reactions-fuel-crisis-in-l-a-landfills
The highly unusual reactions at Los Angeles County’s two largest landfills {Chiquita Canyon, Castaic landfills} have raised serious questions about the region’s long-standing approach to waste disposal and its aging dumps. These incidents have impaired pollution control systems, allowing toxic gases and polluted water to migrate into unwanted areas.

Both facilities remain operational and each continues to accept more than 7,000 tons of trash a day. However, many residents who live nearby fear the potential of even greater problems and say that government officials and landfill operators need to take the problems more seriously.

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Uncontrolled chemical reactions fuel crises at L.A. County's two largest landfills (Original Post) quaint Dec 2023 OP
There is no good solution bucolic_frolic Dec 2023 #1
I truly wish I could say you are wrong. quaint Dec 2023 #2
Career path used to be 'plastics'. I told young nephew 'landfill mining'. cbabe Dec 2023 #3

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Tue Dec 12, 2023, 11:16 AM
Dec 2023

We do have less dirty trash today. Processes have been streamlined, waste products sold for raw material for something else. These legacy dumps are a cesspool of everything. There are no plans and no money and little expertise to deal with them. Where do you start? Dig up a few tons and carve out the metal? Wash it and try again?

Tell me I'm wrong. I want to be wrong on this.

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