Money Heap
Sep 30, 2022
3 minutes
BY CHRIS HELMAN
north of Las Vegas, the Apex landfill receives 8,000 tons of trash per day, delivered by 280 trucks that roll off the interstate before laboring up a winding dirt road to what's called the working face — an active zone of three acres where supersized bulldozers with spiked metal wheels crush and compact the trash. The heap is already 500 feet deep at spots, but there's enough room left to keep burying Sin City's garbage for centuries. Its owner, trash giant Republic Services, has a 15-year monopoly contract to collect
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