When most people think of landfills they picture rotting garbage and everything on our planet slowly dying.  What people don’t realize is that piles of trash are not what dumps look like, the process of garbage disposal is much more complex.  In today’s modern society, trash is compacted and then covered with large piles of dirt so that it can decompose. Another astonishing fact is that while a landfill decomposes, it produces methane gas which is collected and turned into energy that can power entire cities.  Americans do need to work on producing less waste and recycling more but countless engineers have created ways to turn our worlds poison into useful products. Also, today the United States has over 425 landfills that produce “green fuel”. Every year these plants continue to work, we use 169 million barrels less of oil.  This shows that even though trash gets a bad reputation, it can be used to do amazing things.