THE first thing that hits you at the Mildura landfill tip face is the smell. Or rather, the lack of one.

The second thing is its size, because it's surprisingly small.

For anyone in Sunraysia who expects their main waste-management facility to be a classic mountain of stinking rubbish, the landfill is, in fact, full of surprises.

Full of rubbish, too, of course, but modern waste-management prac...