Ian Goodwin has a long history with the Anchorage landfill. He’s worked there for 25 years.
“I got to bury both my elementary school and my junior high school here, by the way, because they demoed both of them,” Goodwin said. “There was kind of some satisfaction there, if I’m honest.”
Goodwin, the superintendent of operations, led a tour of the landfill on a recent, windy afternoon. He walked and drove on dirt paths that cover up roughly a hundred vertical feet of garbage. That’s about a 10-story building…