Bad Idea of the Week: Covering Up Landfill Stench With Deodorant Guns

We're all for alleviating the nasty stench of landfills, but this is just not the way to do it. The UK Guardian reports that Beijing is installing 100 high-pressure deodorant guns at the overflowing Asuwei dump site in the city.

The site could use some sort of fix. Beijing residents generate 18,000 tons of waste daily. That's so much trash that every single landfill and treatment site in the city will be full in only four years. The government has been toying with incinerating the trash, but...