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Are you more of a Puente Hills Landfill or a Pacific Trash Vortex?

What Actual Pile Of Garbage Are You?

You’re the biggest heap of trash in the whole country! You’re authentic and and a bit grimy, you don’t really care what people think of you, and you’re [a vast stretch of detritus piled up in a valley to the north of Las Vegas](http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/apex-landfill-theres-no-place-home-las-vegas-garbage). You’re the party animal of trash heaps: what happens in Vegas, stays in your pile of filth. Sometimes people might be a bit put off by your appearance and attitude, but you’ll just rise above it: after all, you are rapidly growing in size, with around 300 tons of pure garbage being poured onto you every single hour. Also, you’ve got staying power, with a projected lifespan of more than two centuries. You keep doing you!

The Apex Landfill Garbage Pile

You’re a glamorous and elegant pile of garbage! Your life is the envy of other people, you’ve accomplished great things in your time on this planet, and you’re a vast pile of waste over 500 feet tall nestled in the scenic hills near Los Angeles. You’re the kind of garbage pile other garbage piles look up to: in your day, you were [the largest garbage pile in America](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/touring-the-largest-active-landfill-in-america/274731/). Since your retirement in 2013, you’ve settled down gracefully into older age, content in the knowledge that 130 million tons of historic trash are festering slowly beneath your pleasant exterior.

The Puente Hills Garbage Pile

You’re a massive pile of garbage at a recycling plant in Scandinavia! You’ve really got your shit together – not just your shit, but all your friends’ shit too. Not only are a huge pile of Scandinavian garbage, you also import garbage from many other countries and use it to generate electricity. You’re smart, efficient, always willing to help others deal with their problems, and your garbage provides power to large areas of Sweden and Norway. But make sure you don’t become too dependent on sorting out other people’s crap – you [start to struggle if your friends stop dumping all their garbage on you](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/europe/oslo-copes-with-shortage-of-garbage-it-turns-into-energy.html).

An Efficient Scandinavian Garbage Pile

Also known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, you’re largest collection of garbage in the whole world! You’re a bit of a free spirit, you love to travel, and you’re a loose aggregation of plastic waste and toxic sludge that covers an area larger than Texas. Your sense of adventure means that you’re happy to go with the flow and see what happens, letting the ocean currents take you wherever they want to go. Which happens to be [a vast swirling gyre of trash that regularly changes shape](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/04/great-pacific-garbage-patch-ocean-plastic-trash), circling endlessly in the waters between the Americas and Asia.

The Pacific Trash Vortex

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