Eli5: why we don’t combine compost and regular garbage in landfills

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Where I live we have two separate waste pickups, one for compost, any organic waste from yards like grass clippings, leaves, etc. And one for regular trash. Wouldn’t it make sense to combine them? All that organic waste mixed in with the trash would have to help it decompose, right?

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The trouble with compost is that it can spontaneously combust. That’s bad enough on its own. But if it happened in a garbage dump that’s filled with flammable thigns and materials that are toxic when burned, it could cause a lot of problems.

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