Mexico City
Biggest dump closes: Mexico City this week closed its main dump, Bordo Poniente, one of the world’s largest open-air landfills, where the trash is piled more than 50 feet deep. In its heyday, the dump received 12,000 tons of trash every day in a nonstop procession of hundreds of garbage trucks. By this year, though, that figure had been halved, as the city opened new recycling and composting facilities. Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said the closure would significantly reduce the city’s greenhouse-gas emissions. He said the city would establish a plant to capture the methane gas given off by the dump and turn it into energy.
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