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Landfill sites find reuse as locations for solar electricity plants
Waste Not
Landfills are generally useless, smelly eyesores. But many towns are finding new, profitable uses for the piles of junk that dot America’s landscape—as solar-power plants.
Miranda Green
Published
May 19 2013
4:45AM EDT
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