U.S. running out of space for Katrina trash
CBC News
The environmental destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina can be measured -- at least partly -- by the volume of material that has been cleaned up since the storm hit the Gulf Coast more than three weeks ago.
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Suggestion: Use the trash to raise the ground level in areas of New Orleans. (Those areas where everything was flattened anyway.) Lots of cities are partially built on trash heaps... two examples include New York and Toronto. (I didn't google these, but I'm pretty sure both have used trash to extend "land" out into the water.) I think there's also towns in the middle east that are on hills... because they've existed since biblical times, and as one house collapses, they level it out, and build on top. Of course, those houses were built from mud bricks. Slowly, over time, a hill forms under the town.
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