Yesterday’s New York Times Business page brought the cheery news that the US capacity for burying trash has sky-rocketed. Put away those catastrophic visions of our civilization disappearing under the putrid piles of its own refuse. It seems that a combination of environmental regulations and the natural tendency of monopoly to win out over mom and pop enterprise has produced a glut of dump capacity.

A new version of Moore’s Law in action.

Through a combination of consolidation and new practices our nation’s dumps are well ahead of our national culture of trash.

You can see the whole NYT’s article here.

PS – for more about Moore’s Law in it’s original formulation see the Wikipedia article here.