A method of remediating landfill waste comprising mining the waste from a landfill, screening the waste, shredding the waste, magnetically separating ferrous metals from the waste, performing a solid distillation de-polymerization process on the waste to produce hydrocarbon gas (plus water vapor and dry solid waste), distilling the hydrocarbon gas to produce hydrocarbon liquid (which can be processed into synthetic fuel), recycling hydrocarbon gas to produce heat to operate the solid distillation process, and cracking and hydrotreating the hydrocarbon liquid to produce synthetic fuel. In one embodiment, the method further comprises recovering non-ferrous metals from the dry solid waste. Preferably, the method further includes performing an ultra-high temperature gasification process to the dry solid waste to produce inorganic material (which can be returned to the landfill) and a hydrocarbon gas (which can be recycled to produce heat for the method).
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