Featured GALLERY: Eco-Casas en el Basurero de Oaxaca

Dumps. Landfills. Midden (in the olden days).  Why did anyone ever think it would be a good idea to throw all of our garbage in one big pile? Organic and inorganic matter mixed together with toxic chemicals, mixed with still useful building materials and furniture, mixed with "outdated" electronics and EVERYTHING else you can imagine. Within this subtopic of the website you will find upcycling innovations related to landfills and dumps. These heaps of "refuse" are now an indelible part of our lives, but how might we begin to salvage, reuse and even generate energy from the trash piled in landfills. Learn about garbage pickers in many parts of the world who make their living from salvaging useful things out of dumps; get ideas for how to make landfills more accessible to those interested in constructing out of waste; and explore the possibility that one day dumps and landfills may no longer be the only way of getting "rid of" our trash.