Dive summary:

• After stalled attempts to get a groundwater discharge permit The Montmorency-Oscoda-Alpena Solid Waste Management Authority in Atlanta, Mont. is looking to plant a grove of poplar trees to naturally absorb landfill leachate.
• The plan would plant acres of poplar trees on an active area of the landfill; the trees will absorb the leachate and use the minerals for growth.
• So far the Department of Environmental Quality says they see no problem with the proposal and expect the plan to be passed.

From the article:

Because the tree garden would be planted on an active cell, any runover in leachate would return into the cell and then ultimately into the lagoons where the process would begin again. Spreading the leachate onto the trees would take place only from April through October, or until the weather reaches near freezing levels. Phil Roycraft, district supervisor for the DEQ, said he liked the plan and told the commissioners it should be a relatively simple process to get the state to approve the process. ...