A recent report from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency projects the Cortland landfill has only six years of usable life remaining.

That might give some ammunition to those supporting the planned 500-acre expansion of the landfill that will be subject to a challenge in the 2nd District Appellate Court in Elgin on Thursday.

But regardless of one’s position on the plan to expand the landfill to pay for an expansion of the DeKalb County Jail, chances are there’s more you could do to keep your trash out of it.