On November 19, Pennsylvania environmental protection agencies will honor a Slate Belt landfill for its environmental conservation. That's right, a landfill is getting an environmental award for preserving the environment.
Surprisingly, many landfills look like a big hill when you first see it or drive around it. It's actually hard to see trash! Only a tiny section of a landfill complex actively takes trash. So, in most cases, landfills are not mountains of trash for as far as the eye can see.