Dive summary:

• The Alice Municipal Landfill in Alice, Texas is starting a consolidation process that is expected to add 17-20 years of life to the landfill.
• The landfill has three cells and one that is about to undergo construction, while construction will continue on the last cell, the other sections will be consolidated, producing wedges and gaps that can be filled by new trash.
• With this method, the city will not need to purchase any more land or build any extra landfill cells.

From the article:

City Manager Ray De Los Santos Jr. said the completion of Cell C was done in 2011 and the next cell in line is Cell D which has a triangular shape and is approximately 9.95 acres. The consultant will prepare a design for Cell “D” and an amendment to the existing landfill permit.

“What we would like to do...is to proceed with the construction of Cell D but also include a second step that would be the consolidation of all the other cell’s that have already been constructed, already been filled, including the one that is being filled right now, the north half of Cell C,” De Los Santos said. ...