Summary: Health is at risk for those who live within five kilometers of a landfill site. According to research published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology, health is at risk for those who live within five kilometres of a landfill site.

There is some waste you cannot send to landfill. This includes: any liquid waste, including waste water but excluding sludge. waste that would be explosive, corrosive, oxidising, flammable or highly flammable.

Recycling. Recycling is perhaps the most obvious alternative to disposing waste in landfills. An increasing range of products—such as paper, plastic, textiles, wood, aluminum, and glass—can be recycled through various processes.

Previous research shows that people living closer to landfill sites suffer from medical conditions such as asthma, cuts, diarrhoea, stomach pain, reoccurring flu, cholera, malaria, cough, skin irritation, cholera, diarrhoea and tuberculosis more than the people living far away from landfill sites [31,32,33,34,35,36].

In fact, the US is on pace to run out of room in landfills within 18 years, potentially creating an environmental disaster, the report argues. The Northeast is running out of landfills the fastest, while Western states have the most remaining space, according to the report.

In many cases, the waste people create and send to a landfill can generate enough energy to power an entire community and often, revenues generated from a successfully operating landfill can be used to improve schools, roads, and the quality of life for all who live near the site. …

Disadvantage of Landfills

• Landfills are Partially Responsible For Climate Change. One tonne of biodegradable waste can produce about 400–500 cubic meters of landfill gas.
• Methane Lights up Easily.
• Contaminate Soil and Water.
• Landfills Affect Wildlife.
• Accidents Can Happen.
• Landfills Affect Human Health.

a major source of pollution, and there are many negative issues associated with them. Rubbish buried in landfill breaks down at a very slow rate and remains a problem for future generations. The three main problems with landfill are toxins, leachate and greenhouse gases.

Landfills are bad for our health and environment. landfills, carrying with it toxic chemicals from our waste, ends up in our water supplies. Many communities surrounding landfills have had their drinking water contaminated by leaking landfills.

The Landfills contribute to global warming because once waste has been dumped very little air remains below the surface. The landfill gas is generated as a byproduct of the digestion of organic materials by organisms.

Landfills are not designed to break down waste, only to store it, according to the NSWMA. But garbage in a landfill does decompose, albeit slowly and in a sealed, oxygen-free environment. Much of the trash that ends up in landfills can also be recycled or reused in other ways.

Even after a landfill is closed, the trash buried there will remain. Trash put in a landfill will stay there for a very long time. Inside a landfill, there is little oxygen and little moisture. Under these conditions, trash does not break down very rapidly.

The vast majority—79 percent—is accumulating in landfills or sloughing off in the natural environment as litter. Meaning: at some point, much of it ends up in the oceans, the final sink.

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