Dive Brief:

• Using airspace at landfills could be a way to effectively dispose of waste that will expand the volume of trash a site is able to accept.
• No landfills were constructed in Florida from 1994 to 2001, with only two operating in the state within the past 11 years.
• Daniel K. Benjamin, a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, calculated that if waste reached 255 feet in height, only 10 square miles would be needed to hold trash for the next century.

Dive Insight:

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection now states that the volume of waste generated has been reduced in recent years and that the capacity available at the landfills across the state is sufficient to dispose of materials for many years to come.