Burying a building in the ground isn’t good environmental practice & it is banned in most places . The waste should be buried in a properly connstructed sanitary landfill or recycled . In some places , they even recycle the whole building by placing it on special transporter trucks & carrying it away in sections . With brick buildings , the brick siding is taken apart before removal & reassembled at the new site . I think America as a whole thinks of brownfield remediation as akin to “rewarding failure” . The belief appears to be – or to have been – that once neighborhhoods & their residents & buildings have started to “go bad” , they should be left alone to fully decay while good neighborhoods get started elsewhere . The world’s most powerful economy ever could sustain these beliefs , but now new thinking is called for .