mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> 10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">until the 1930s, landfills were little more than dumps but for centuries they were seen as a solution to the problem of solid waste and to the problem of unusable land . in New York for example, landfills were created to specifically make taxable land from land thought to be useless or dangerous such as marshy and swampy a...