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Landfilling and Landfill Carbon Storage for the Waste Reduction Model (WARM)

These documents provide more detailed information on how landfilling and landfill carbon storage are modeled in the Waste Reduction Model (WARM). Included is a brief overview of landfill carbon storage in WARM, detailed documentation of the updated landfill modeling methodology used in WARM, and the approach used to model component-specific decay rates for the landfilling of materials in WARM.

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