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Landfills: Better Safe than Sorry

First I wake up and blow my nose. Garbage. I finish the shampoo during my shower. Garbage. Eat a breakfast pizza for breakfast. Box in the Garbage. Have an orange. Garbage. Brush my teeth and finish the toothpaste. Garbage. If someone can produce this much garbage in one morning imagine what we produce in one whole day, one week, one month, and one year. Think about where all that garbage goes. If we don’t start sustaining ourselves from landfills we willdamage the environment.

Landfills are not a healthy way to dispose of our trash. Landfills let off chemicals that cause global warming by minimizing the thickness of the o-zone layer. If this keeps happening the layer will be gone and the Earth will be uninhabitable. Another factor is that some of those chemicals also run off or leak affecting our land, water, and air leading to contamination. We need to start sustaining ourselves and using items that will be taken to the landfill to their fullest values so earth will be healthy and we can live here longer.

Landfills are damaging the o-zone layer causing global warming. Biodegradable products in landfills help reduce the amount of items filling up the landfill, but they have a problem that causes worse than biodegradability helps. In the process the biodegradable items are letting off methane and carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases.Because landfills are so large they let off huge amounts of these gases at a time. Also when items are burned in an incinerator they let off even more pollution even though they are getting rid of the garbage. Greenhouse gases from landfills are ruining the o-zone layer and ruining the world.

Many people around the world think once you throw something away you don’t need to worry about it anymore. Once landfills are so bad that the environment just keeps getting worse you will be thinking about it everyday. Thats why before we throw stuff away you need to make sure that what you’re doing is safe for the environment. Other than affecting the o-zone layer, carbon dioxide and methane also get into the air and are bad for US. Some e-waste that is thrown into landfills that have chemicals that can leak out then pollute our land, water, and air. Also affecting our water that we use for drinking, cleaning, washing, and etc. is getting polluted by leachate produced by rainwater running through the mountains of trash. Landfills will eventually ruin our environment.

We will never get out of using landfills, but we can at least sustain ourselves so we don’t fill them up as fast. Many people go to the landfill to drop some their trash off and they find items that could be used again. Only small repairs on an item instead of buying a whole new one will save you money and save room in the landfills. People are always being told to buy or use only what you need. If humans did this more often our landfills wouldn’t fill up so fast. Another way to sustain ourselves is by using metal silverware instead of plastic, or glass plates instead of paper. During an experiment at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire students had to carry around all the trash they produced that day. Many students were embarrassed by the trash they had to take to class so to reduce the amount their trash bags they started using washable utensils, plates, and etc. Would you rather save a little water or the planet? This shows that a little sustaining will help that much more.

Many people think that once trash is in a landfills something will be done so it doesn’t cause harm. Instead of putting the trash directly into the landfill sometimes it is burned in an incinerator. Once everything is burned down they put the ashes into the landfill therefore saving room. But what they don’t think about how much pollution they are putting by burning the trash. Nothing is accomplished here because room is saved, but more is going up and damaging the o-zone layer. Also many chemicals in the trash can leak and contaminate our soil and water sources. Anyone can see that this is bad for the environment.

As many can see landfills are not a safe way to go if we want to live on this planet longer. Landfills damage the environment such as the o-zone layer, our land, water, and air, therefore affecting us. We can do good by sustaining ourselves.Before you throw your trash away remember where its going and see if it has been used to its fullest value BEFORE IT GETS SHIPPED TO THE LANDFILL!!!!!