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THE LANDFILLS INFRASTRUCTURE What is the largest construction you can think of? Does a landfill come to your mind? Probably not. One of the largest buildings on the face of the earth is the Pyramid of the sun, constructed in Mexico and covers approximately thirty million cubic feet of space. Now if you think that is big just imagine an even larger structure: a landfill that occupies over seventy million cubic feet of biosphere, we …

…probably non-existent. Several effective programs, and everyone having the right information about our environment, probably will lead us to success. Bibliography Gore Senator Al. Earth in the Balance. New York: Houghton, 1992. Miller, G. Tyler, Jr. Living in the Environment. Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1998. Landfills are hazardous to humans. http://www.filpside.org/vol12/week4/se98w406.htm Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy. Rubbish!. New York: Harper, 1996. The Basics of Landfills. http://www.enviroweb.org/enviroissues/landfills