Eli5: how do landfills work?

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Is the trash really just buried and left to decompose?

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A lot of golf courses are built on top of old landfills as the ground will never be stable enough to build on.
We were playing on one near my house after a heavy rain. You could see the bubbles of gas coming up through the standing water on the course.

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