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What has been successful in my city, Portland, is separating the food and yard waste. The food and yard wastes are composted. Composting produces methane, but t
by ianburrell 2y ago
What has been successful in my city, Portland, is separating the food and yard waste. The food and yard wastes are composted. Composting produces methane, but there is a trial to capture the methane which is burned as natural gas.
Capturing methane from compost should be easier than whole landfill. It also keeps the organics instead of losing them.
- eru 2y agoYou don't really lose anything in a landfill. You just lock it up for a while. We can 'mine' landfills in the future, if that becomes economically viable.
- actionfromafar 2y agoA wrinkle I read somewhere - organics in traditional landfills kept toxic materials like heavy metals "locked up", less risk of such stuff leeching out in the ground water.