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Why can’t we throw all our trash into a volcano and burn it up?

  • Written by Emily Johnson, Research Geologist, US Geological Survey
imageLava flows from a fissure in the aftermath of eruptions from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, May 22, 2018. Andrew Richard Hara/Ena Media Hawaii via Getty Imagesimage

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