At the end of World War II, urban growth accelerated. With this growth came increased refuse generation. The impacts of open-burning dumps on public health became a concern. Experience in the military with sanitary fill methods and the interests by some local governments in eliminating open dumps led to increased efforts to dispose of refuse in a sanitary manner, but what prescribed a sanitary manner was unknown. Many local governments that bragged about using the sanitary landfill method were actually using modified open dumps. Unlike Shakespeare and his rose, a sanitary landfill by any other name aint a sanitary landfill.
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