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The vast majority of landfills eventually leak. It's overall a terrible way to handle this waste w.r.t. environmental impact.
by yusina 1y ago
The vast majority of landfills eventually leak. It's overall a terrible way to handle this waste w.r.t. environmental impact.
- megaman821 1y agoRemoving all plastic from landfills wouldn't really change anything. Landfills are already lined to prevent leaking for decades and then there are monitoring systems for heavy metals and other harmful chemicals anyway.
- legulere 1y agoRemoving plastics from landfills would decease the sizes of landfills and thus costs to keep them up or to instead incinerate the waste. Decades aren't enough, as plastics basically don't decompose fully at all. Landfills are basically a high interest loan, to not have to pay for dealing with the trash today.