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For more photos, see: 

• Photos To Go - this is a great website, but they charge $ Search for: landfill, dump, incinerator, trash, litter, rubbish, garbage, waste, toxics, nuclear, recycling.
• About Network - good variety of photos
• Free Foto - United Kingdom - rubbish and recycling
• Free Foto - UK - wind farms
• Vancourver, Canada - 2 landfill photos and mining operations
• Earth Crash - trash at the beach and desert
• Yolo County, California - photos of a bioreactor
• Steven Moore's photos of open dumping - definitely worth the wait for the photos to appear. See for more landfill info and open dumping info, see - http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/Landfills.htm 

WHEELABRATOR 'MUNICIPAL WASTE' INCINERATOR, FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA

G.R.O.W.S. Landfill, from Bordentown Rd., Falls Township, PA.
Note: This property was former floodplain and is adjacent to the Delaware River.

TULLYTOWN LANDFILL, TULLYTOWN, PA, This property was former floodplain and is adjacent to the Delaware River.

Below: Tullytown Landfill in PA as seen from Florence, NJ.

NEW ZEALAND LANDFILLS BY THE SEA. 
Note: These landfills are not typical of New Zealand waste management. For a better side of New Zealand, see - ZERO WASTE New Zealand / Christchurch, New Zealand: Adopted a management plan which commits the City Council to Zero Waste by 2020 (adopted August 1998).

LANDFILLING TRASH

(Photo courtesy UK Department of Environment, Transport and Regions)

LANDFILL LINER  (Courtesy Solid Waste Onlin)   

LEACHATE COLLECTION TANKS (Courtesy Solid Waste Online)

CONVENTIONAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY (Uses chemicals)
(Courtesy Solid Waste Online)

COMPOSTING FACILITY (Courtesy Solid Waste Online)

TRASH TRANSFER TRUCK

GARBAGE COLLECTION TRUCK

Garbage can, paper, and mixed recyclables

Litter...along Pennsylvania roads and highways. Pennsylvania is the nation's leading importer of waste. Tractor trailers loaded with trash crowd the highways. 

Use TerraServer to locate Areas of Interest from Satellite Photos

TULLYTOWN LANDFILL (terraced features, northeast of center)
On the Delaware River, Tullytown, Bucks County, PA
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G.R.O.W.S. Landfill, Falls Township, Bucks County, PA
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Satellite Photo of TULLYTOWN LANDFILL (terraced features, left of center) & GROWS Landfill (right of top center).  Operated by Waste Management Technologies (WMX) in Tullytown and Falls Township, Bucks County, PA. WMX owns 6,000 acres in this location. Most of the landfill property was former floodplain or floodprone areas on the Delaware River. Levittown is on the left side of photo. Florence, New Jersey is across the Delaware River from the Tullytown Landfill. Pennsbury Manor is the reconstructed summer home of William Penn, (right side, center) Pennsylvania's Founding Father. View this area on Terra Server