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Is it the plastic in landfills causing the greenhouse gases?

• ZeroGravitas 5y ago
  Probably mostly rotting food and other organic matter, maybe some fridges and other chemicals. But once you start recycling one thing, it makes it easier to recycle others as they share infrastructure. But recycling plastic specifically uses less energy which in turn saves carbon. Even burning the plastic as fuel is regularly cited by life cycle analyses as less carbon intensive than landfilling it and creating totally new plastic to replace it.