Arnold Offner has asked the density of MSW. Prof. Clark Wiseman of
Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA, used a figure of 2 cubic yards per
ton (sorry for the non-metric units, but a yard is a little less than a
meter, and a ton is a little less than a metric ton), which he
attributed to Franklin Associates, Ltd., Prairie Village, KS. This was
in an article he published in CATO Journal, 12, No. 2, Fall, 1992. In
that article, he calculated that a single landfill 100 yards deep and
about 35 miles (56 km) square would be sufficient to hold all the MSW in
the US for a thousand years. This area constitutes 0.042 percent of the
contiguous US. It's worth remembering this the next time you hear
someone claim that we're running out of room for landfills.

 

Gordon Davy 

Baltimore, MD 

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