Curious Iowa: How did a landfill become a recreation destination?
www.thegazette.com
In this week’s edition of Curious Iowa, The Gazette looks at why a landfill was built on the doorstep of Czech Village, how Cedar Rapids Linn County Solid Waste Agency developed a landfill into a hub of nature trails and what will happen when the county’s current landfill reaches capacity.

“Additionally, Mount Trashmore has monitoring wells that collect and handle the leachate — a sort of garbage juice created when organic matter breaks down — in a sanitary manner.”

Delightful!

    • queermunist she/herOP
      12·
      1 year ago

      I live out in the countryside but CR is where I have to go to do anything so lol

  • cmbabul@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    There’s Mount Trashmores all over the US, when I was in elementary school in Georgia we took a field trip to the top of Old Mount Trashmore which overlooks New Mount Trashmore