The findings of excavations in modern urban landfills, which often tell more about ourselves and our habits than we are willing to confess.

In their place will be 1,000 or so immense modern landfills owned primarily by a dozen or so companies and intended to serve entire regions.

Design characteristics of a modern landfill include methods to contain leachate such as clay or plastic lining material.

A modern landfill, built to international environmental standards, is planned for southwest Baghdad, with the capacity to handle 2,230 cubic meters of waste per day.

The second, more hopeful lesson is that, like Pennsylvania, New York can create modern landfills.

They also say that many degradable products have little value because disintegration takes place slowly in the oxygen-starved, dry environment of modern landfills.

Penelope Wilson describes this archaeological find as the equivalent of sifting through a modern landfill or waste container.

This is a modern sanitary landfill in the making - an updated version of the smelly, unsightly town dump.

A modern regional landfill is planned to be opened at abandoned coal fields near Kalenić in 2013.

But other witnesses described the financial benefits reaped by communities that have constructed modern landfills to handle other people's garbage.