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MIKE SIEGEL / THE SEATTLE TIMES
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

What a big bunch of garbage: but Roosevelt Landfill turns it into power

Energy is produced both above and below ground on the plateau near Roosevelt Landfill, where wind turbines churn in the distance as old carpeting, plastic buckets, foam food containers and seas of ubiquitous plastic grocery bags are dumped by "tippers" into one of the largest landfills on the continent.

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