Hundreds of feet underground, in a long-dormant portion of Chiquita Canyon landfill, tons of garbage have been smoldering for months due to an enigmatic chemical reaction.
I used to do work at a municipal dump.
A few years before I started, the biggest city in the municipality started a composting program. They built a large industrial sized building to put the compostable waste into while it rotted away.
The ammonia from the waste was so bad that they had to abandon the project. All of the metal beams in the building were rusting out by the time I had gotten there.
They ended up shipping that waste to be someone else’s problem.
I used to do work at a municipal dump.
A few years before I started, the biggest city in the municipality started a composting program. They built a large industrial sized building to put the compostable waste into while it rotted away.
The ammonia from the waste was so bad that they had to abandon the project. All of the metal beams in the building were rusting out by the time I had gotten there.
They ended up shipping that waste to be someone else’s problem.