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One of the world's largest landfills is to be closed next year because of worries that the more than 12,000 tons of garbage deposited there daily could contaminate the aquifer, Mexico's Interior Department said Monday.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors, always looking for new ways to bring in funds, has thrown its weight behind the concept of expended producer responsibility.

In an effort to recoup landfill and recycling costs, they are calling on Congress to help make producers and consumers of certain products responsible for the products' disposal.

A federal appeals court panel has upheld a 2005 court decision that effectively halted the development of what would have been one of the nation's largest landfills near Joshua Tree National Park.

More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty their loads in a landfill as big as 20 football fields.

Fifty-thousand people produce a lot of trash. Who knew their dump site could be listed on the National Register of Historic Places?