Question: are we running out of landfill space?
Answer: Actual landfill capacity is not running out." Today, 1,654 landfills in 48 states take care of 54 percent of all the solid waste in the country. ... Holding all of America's garbage for the next one hundred years would require a space only 255 feet high or deep and 10 miles on a side. Landfills welcome the business.