According to data from the company Rostekhnologii, only eight percent of household waste is recycled in Russia, while the rest of the garbage is taken to landfills for burial.

How many landfill sites does Algeria have?

I used to live next to a landfill.

This company monitors one of Algiers's largest landfills.

The largest man-made structure in the world is The Great Wall of China. The 2nd largest is the Staten Island garbage landfill in New York.

In March 2014, the Administration released a Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions from landfills, coal mining, agriculture, and oil and gas systems through voluntary actions and common-sense standards.

“There is over 21 billion pounds of textile in the U.S. alone, in landfills and I strive to reduce that number, at least a little,” she says.

Light bulbs should be taken to landfills.

San Francisco has a "zero waste" initiative. It wants to send nothing to landfills or incinerators by 2020.

Waste is deposited in a landfill in the long term.