William Rathje quotes:

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.