but if garbage dumps fail to facilitate decomposition due to the lack of an oxygen rich environment, why wouldn’t the waste managers bore columns to pump in oxygen and good bacteria to compensate ?

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but if garbage dumps fail to facilitate decomposition due to the lack of an oxygen rich environment, why wouldn’t the waste managers bore columns to pump in oxygen and good bacteria to compensate ?

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Answer 1

Ok, so you have a hole… In a solid pile of trash. You have added a tiny bit of surfave to a tiny amount of the total pile.

To do what you’re imagining, the trash would have to be porous like a sponge. And that’s just not doable.