The way garbage is being handled is a crime. It's being dumped into the oceans, burned and scattered in the environment. Nothing is more polluting and toxic than burning plastic with garbage.

Pretending that garbage can be recycled is a large part of the problem. There is very little recycle value to garbage.

Garbage should be baled and stacked into hills. Covering garbage bales with dirt would prevent water from leaching through. There would be no contamination of underground water; and very little space would be required.

Quite a bit of dirt needs to cover baled garbage, because some compression will occur. In non-mountainous areas, there is shale that could be used. It goes down hundreds of feet. Shale is soft enough to be easily crushed and hard enough to be stable. If shale is dug up, garbage could fill the pit while creating a hill above it.

The biggest problem at the starting point is greens, as usual. They pretend that there is some reason not to put garbage on land, as if it could be recycled instead. Since recycling is seldom more than fraud, most of the supposed recycled garbage pollutes the environment.

There was no soil on planet Earth as it was originally formed. Instead, there was shale. Shale is too hard to be viewed as soil and too soft to be viewed as stone.

Where then did soil come from? The only source of clay was a planet exploding in the asteroid belt 541 million years ago, which dumped about fifteen inches of clay onto the surface of the Earth and essential minerals for promoting the transition to complex life forms.

Shale and clay have approximately the same chemical compositions but different structural properties. Why? No one knows why. Was there clay on the planet that exploded; or was clay formed in the atmosphere of the earth, as some rudimentary chemicals precipitated on their way down? There is no theory to answer the question.

At any rate, hundreds of feet of shale covered the surface of the Earth as the Earth took form. As oceans formed, they dissolved a large amount of shale and precipitated it causing it to settle to the bottom of the early oceans and precipitating the minerals out of the oceans at the same time.

The early ocean sediments consisting of precipitated shale formed a sticky type of soil which is called gumbo. Such gumbo sometimes rose to the surface with tectonic plate activity. An example is western South Dakota, which is covered with such gumbo originating with early ocean sediments, while eastern South Dakota is covered with a thin layer of clay combined with glacial till and other sediments.

That means there are hundreds of feet of shale below most flat ground, where mountains have not displaced it. The shale should be used as the solution to garbage problems. Garbage can be stored in the shale; and shale can be dumped on top of garbage to stabilize it.

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