Wisconsin’s Dane County has only one landfill. The county wants to extend its service life and usable volume, so the landfill is transitioning to being a bioreactor. Liquid will be injected into it to encourage decomposition and methane production (for energy harvests). Some opposition has greeted this plan. While the Capital Times article decently summarizes the issue, it ignores discussion of modern geosynthetic lining systems for landfills. Only clay liners are mentioned.

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