When we throw away trash that is not recyclable, it goes to the landfill. Landfills take up room to build parks, businesses, and schools. Since the number of people is growing, there is more trash piling up at the landfill. One day, we will not have enough room for landfills. We use landfills to "store" our trash. To reduce waste: Be eco friendly, get compost bins, recycle, and use less.
Landfills are large designated areas where waste is disposed of and buried in the ground to minimize environmental impact. Municipalities use landfills as a way to manage and control the disposal of trash and other waste materials.
Bio gas (methane) is produced in landfills through the decay of plant matter. In some landfills methane gas is collected for use as fuel. Otherwise, methane is a significant greenhouse gas.
Landfills use chemicals to break down material but pollution is based really on how much we see. So landfills solve the problem by putting our garbage in places that are useless for anything else.
The area of land taken for landfill sites is about 28000 hectares. ...
What comes out of the landfills and septic tanks goes into the water. I would rather not drink someone's sewage.
560,000 acres are active landfills. I have no idea about old landfills
When landfills fill up, people open up new landfills.
According to the state's Web site, there are approximately 50 active landfills in the State of Maine. An interactive map revealed that there are about 200 including the inactive landfills. The bulk of these landfills are in the southern part of the state.
the landfills are overflowing
when you recycle they to your bottles to the center and they mash them up and send them to companies that recyle. but the companies re-use the plastic instead of throwing it out and therefore less plastic in the landfills.
there are 90 landfills in new zealand
There in 90 legal landfills in New Zealand. so that means 90 landfills are allowed to be used.