Ecologist: Landfills are generally designed to hold ten years' worth of waste  Some people maintain that as the number of active landfills consequently dwindles over the coming decade, there will inevitably be a crisis in landfill availability
However, their prediction obviously relies on the unlikely assumption that no new landfills will open as currently active ones close and is ttherefore unsound
It is a claim on which the argument as a whole is designed to cast doubt.