As organic waste in a landfill breaks down, it produces landfill gas, a mix of methane, carbon dioxide and water vapor.
At Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany, he contributed the unforgettable "Doing Nothing," a pair of good-size, unkempt hillocks — part Chinese landscape, part overgrown landfill — plunked down in the middle of a large manicured, formerly royal lawn.
While the landfill was shut down in 1992, samples by the Environmental Bureau of Investigation and the Petitcodiac Riverkeeper showed that ammonium levels around the leachate exceeded Canadian quality guidelines by as much as 15 times, and contained heavy metals, petroleum hydrocarbons, and PCBs.
The other derailment occurred about 1 30 a.m. today when nine cars loaded with trash bound for a Virginia landfill cascaded down the same embankment.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's latest plan to export nearly 10,000 tons of city trash a day is winning widespread praise, even from the New Jersey community that would handle most of the garbage after the city's last landfill shuts down.
Compostable products that are sent to a landfill will not break down quickly if they are covered with other waste.
At the 233 offices of the advertising company Euro RSCG Worldwide, paper has been replaced with glass, to cut down on landfill.
Blagojevich instead shut down the landfill, and not long after, in a radio interview, Mell accused Chris Kelly of trading state contracts for campaign donations.
Mr. Blagojevich shut down a landfill operated by a relative of Mr. Mell, saying it was taking types of waste it was not licensed to accept.
The rubbish crisis began in mid-July when residents took it upon themselves to shut down a landfill that had been overflowing for years, leading municipalities to find ad hoc spots to dump rubbish.
