Seems odd the title even mentions landfills and the comments here are focused on them, since despite the largest hourly producer of methane mentioned being a la

Seems odd the title even mentions landfills and the comments here are focused on them, since despite the largest hourly producer of methane mentioned being a landfill, they are largely glossed over! Based on the map, landfill emissions are basically a non issue outside of South Asia, so efforts to reduce those emissions can be rather targeted. It’s worth noting that despite trapping nearly 30 times more heat, methane is only responsible for around 25% of global warming and only exists in the atmosphere for a decade vs 100s of years for CO2. Certainly reducing methane emissions will help, but CO2 will hang around long after the methane is gone (why the usual “suspect”, cattle, is a non issue). With regards to landfills, the culprit is anaerobic decomposition. Diverting paper to recycling and most other organics to compost would go a long way.