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How FIVE BILLION Pounds of Las Vegas Garbage Powers a City
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Overview
Most the of 600 billion pounds of waste that Americans produce every year ends up in landfills. All that trash can have huge impacts on the environment. But modern landfills have found a new use for all that trash — they’re turning it into energy.
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