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land disposal technology, it will occur eventually.” More than a year later, on July 26, 1982, the EPA again put its opinions into the Federal Register, emphasizing that all landfills will inevitably leak: “A liner is a barrier technology that prevents or greatly restricts migration of liquids into the ground. No liner, however, can keep all liquids out of the ground for all time. Eventually liners will either degrade, tear, or crack and will allow liquids to migrate out of the unit,” vol. 46, no. 24, p. 32284.

82. “Waste Identification,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (epa.gov/osw/hazard/wastetypes/wasteid/index.htm).

83. Daniel Steinway, “Trashing Superfund: The Role of Municipal Solid Waste in CERCLA Cases,” The American Lawyer’s Corporate Counsel Magazine, November 1999 (library.findlaw.com/1999/Nov/1/130490.htm).

84. “Additive to reduce cows’ methane emissions on innovation shortlist,” The Low Carbon Economy (lowcarboneconomy.com/community_content/

_low_carbon_news/5073).

85. “Landfills Are Dangerous,” Environmental Research Foundation (rachel.org/en/node/4467). This summary cites twenty-one different studies including: 1. State of New York Department of Health, Investigation of Cancer: Incidence and Residence Near 38 Landfills with Soil Gas Migration Conditions, New York State, 1980–1989 (Atlanta, Ga.: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, June 1998); 2. Lynton Baker, Renee Capouya, Carole Cenci, et al., The Landfill Testing Program: Data Analysis and Evaluation Guidelines (Sacramento, Calif.: California Air Resources Board, September 1990); 3. M. S. Goldberg et al., “Incidence of cancer among persons living near a municipal solid waste landfill site in Montreal, Quebec,” Archives of Environmental Health, vol. 50, no. 6 (November 1995); 4. L. D. Budnick et al., “Cancer and birth defects near the Drake Superfund site, Pennsylvania,” Archives of Environmental Health, vol. 39, no. 6 (November 1984); 5. K. Mallin, “Investigation of a bladder cancer cluster in northwestern Illinois,” American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 132, no. 1, supplement (July 1990); 6. J. Griffith et al., “Cancer mortality in U.S. counties with hazardous waste sites and ground water pollution,” Archives of Environmental Health, vol. 44, no. 2 (March 1989); and 7. Martine Vrijheid, Ben Armstrong, et al., Potential Human Health Effects of Landfill Sites; Report to the North West Region of the Environment Agency (London: Environmental Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, March 1998).

86. Daphne Wysham, “Good News, There’s a Climate Bill—Bad News, It Stinks,” originally published by Alternet.org (no-burn.org/article.php?id=711), and Kate Sheppard, “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Waxman-Markey Energy/Climate Bill,” Grist, June 3, 2009 (grist.org/article/2009–06–03-waxman-markey-bill-breakdown/).

87. “Organic Materials,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/organics/index.htm).

88. “Zero Waste: Composting,” SFEnvironment (sfenvironment.org/our_programs/topics.html?ti=6).

89. Personal correspondence with Robin Plutchok, program manager at Stopwaste.org, August 2009.

90. “Managing MSW in Nova Scotia,” BioCycle, February 1999, vol. 40, no. 2, p. 31.

91. “The State of Garbage in America” BioCycle, vol. 47, no. 4, April 2006, p. 26 (jgpress.com/archives/_free/000848.html).

92. Peter Montague, “The Modern Solution to Pollution is Dilution,” Rachel’s Democracy and Health News, no. 996, January 29, 2009 (precaution.org/lib/09/waste_dispersal.090129.htm).

93. Inventory of Sources and Environmental Releases of Dioxin-Like Compounds in the United States for the Years 1987, 1995, and 2000, final report, United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA/600/P-03/002f, November 2006. And Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives/Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance, 2003 (no-burn.org/article.php?id=276). Additional information and sources can be found at “Dioxin Homepage,” EJnet.org (ejnet.org/dioxin/).

94. Michelle Allsopp,