Watch How Mountains Of Trash Spread Across The U.S. Over 100 Years

Americans create a lot of trash ― 254 million tons of it each year. But the landfills that house all that garbage aren’t distributed equally. The recent Land of Waste report from Save on Energy, a company that lets consumers compare electricity plans, uses U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data to visualize the spread of landfills across the U.S. and track which states are holding the most trash. Their graphic shows landfills opening and closing across the country, going back one hundred...