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> Your garbage will still turn into compost, just in a landfill This point is not actually true. Landfills are not built to optimize for decomposition, they're
by OkayPhysicist 3y ago
> Your garbage will still turn into compost, just in a landfill
This point is not actually true. Landfills are not built to optimize for decomposition, they're optimized for density. The high density leads to heavily anaerobic conditions below the surface, to the point where excavating a landfill can find shit like newspapers from decades ago.
Plus, composting makes more sense from a land use perspective. If you're exclusively taking compostables, and shipping out the compost, your land use limits your throughput, but for a landfill, your land use limits area under that curve, cumulative input. You fill up a landfill, then you have to make another one. They are, somewhat ironically, disposable.
- convolvatron 3y agoyou can't use landfill as compost because its really quite contaminated
- tash9 3y agoBut the volume of compostable material is small compared to the overall trash volume, right? Aren't we talking about a negligible quantity relative to amount of effort and (potentially) negative sentiment amongst swing voters?
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoI don't think so. Ever since my household started putting food waste in the ward waste bin instead of the trash bin, our trash bin has been mostly empty on any given week. A few scraps of single-use plastics that can't be recycled, Of course, that's assuming that your recycling isn't also going into the landfill, which isn't a great assumption.