Flutterby™! : garbage

The current Straight Dope talks about recycling versus disposal, and like so many before makes a reasonable economic case for disposal, until you look at the DOE's realization that nuclear sites are not only permanently unsafe, the contamination is leaching, and realize that perhaps we need to look at how the theory translates into facts a little more closely, especially when we consider how cavalierly most of us treat household hazardous wastes like batteries and old electronics... (Observations that 35 miles square is 1225 square miles which is ballpark a little over 128,000 acres which is a hella-lotta land will be cheerfully glossed over...).