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Is there enough raw material on earth for landfills to become major environmental problems? (genuinely curious)
by xxr 4y ago
Is there enough raw material on earth for landfills to become major environmental problems? (genuinely curious)
- BurningFrog 4y agoMaybe this makes me sounds like a jerk, but: All material that can end up in landfills is already on Earth.
- notahacker 4y agoDepends what you mean by "major environmental problem". Landfills aren't going to singlehandedly cause anthropogenic climate change, but they contribute significantly to it, and a poorly sealed landfill leaching its contents into the local water table can cause some pretty drastic problems with the local environment
- sacrosancty 4y agoHow are they worse than any alternative? If I dump my food waste in the garden, is that emitting less GHG than letting it decompose in a landfill? Is it that it comes out as methane from landfills but less harmful CO2 from a little pile? That should be solved by flaring the methane.