IESI : The Waste Of Waste Abuse

All kids should be required to visit a landfill as an educational necessity. One large landfill, the GROWS Landfill, is “part of Waste Management Inc.’s 6,000-acre garbage treatment complex” (Rogers 187). 6,000 acres is roughly the size of 5,000 full football fields, which is enormous when you think about the vast size of this landfill and its trash. Schools should be required by law to make at

Ever since I was young, I’ve always wanted to change the world. I suppose I got this notion by watching superhero shows as a kid. However, unlike the heroes on television, I didn’t have any powers; therefore, I had to think of a new way to change the world. Thus, I came up with the idea of recycling. Annually, we dump over two billion tons of waste into landfills. The waste from these landfills contributes to environmental problems. Consequently, we can’t go a day without recycling, or we risk the chance of destroying the Earth through accumulation of pollution. Unfortunately, recycling is taken too lightly; that’s why I’ve made it my mission to inform my community of the necessity of recycling.

New York City, like most cities across the United Sates utilizes landfills to dispose of their waste. Fresh Kills Landfill opened in 1948 and was only intended to be a temporary landfill used for 20 years, however by 1955 it became the largest landfill in the world as it was turned into New York’s primary dumping ground for the second half of the 20th century. At the peak of operation Fresh Kills was receiving twenty barges carry 650 tons of waste each and every day. In March of 2001 Fresh Kills reached capacity and with the urging of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and local residents it was shut down. That left a big question for the Department of Sanitation as to what to do with New York City and its surrounding boroughs trash? (Fresh Kills Park Alliance)

Having a idea GatesburgGoGreen Initiative to reduce as much as 90% of landfill waste isn't a unachievable goal at all. Growing up I have heard about all the changes in society and growth of population in the U.S. Not being able to stare at one's trash or even smell it in the neighborhood should be a motive! Enhancing how we recyle, where, and being creative with our way shouldn't be a issue.

Anywhere you look around the United States landfills can be found. If you are lucky enough to pass by one, the site is probably seen reaching capacity. Sometimes you might not even see them before your nose catches the putrid scent. These landfill sites sure are not popular but they are very much a necessity to our lives. Imagine what we would do with all the trash if we did not have somewhere to go with it? Unfortunately, landfill sites do have negative side effects on the environment. Three of the top concerns related to landfills are toxins released in the air coming from items such as electronic waste, liquid trash contaminating the land and waterways, and greenhouse gas emissions like methane. With the world on watch with heightened awareness

In all of the land fills you could do different things in each landfill because there are many of them the one I think that would be most predictive is using it as farmland because farms could buy it for cheap because no one elsa would want it and because it is rich in materials for the crops to grow elsa plenty of land for your livestock and building. Then the farms could sell there old land to people to build house and then it would become a more populated area for people to live at and it will become more and more populated.

It is often thought that recycling isn’t very productive or effective. What this argument overlooks is that; “In the United States we generate enough trash to fill 63,000 garbage trucks that hold 9 tons of trash each. If we remove the recyclables we would need only 46,000 garbage trucks” (York 1). Since 153 tons of garbage is recycled and saved each day, it has proven to be more effective.

Could just three bins per residence help reduce number and size of landfills? On average most landfills will be closed in up to ten years, due to being full of waste, but that draws a new question. If recycling is enforced to three bins per residence, how long will that extend the lifetime of the landfill? Would the effort have an outcome as rewarding as we hope? Recycling costs may be reduced by limiting the transportation of recycled items, such as

Welcome to K.A.S.S, we have a Hawaii like landform. We chose this location because it is environmentally sound. Our climate is pretty mild and warm. We have about 1500 people population. We have a recycling center, to reduce the amount of waste being put in our landfill. The population of our cites is large because it is well liked. We don’t have any chemicals in our landfill like system. We have a sewage power plant that discards of our trash in a safe way and we reuse it in any way possible. We also have a another way to dispose of our waste that kind of works like a landfill.

New mountains are forming in Hawaii, and they aren’t lush and green like the ones endemic to the islands. These are massive mounds of trash swelling in size, day by day. Landfill limits are soon to be exceeded and new grounds are being selected for additional pollution. According to an article on the Kekaha Landfill on the west side of Kauai, there is only around 10 years worth of trash life anticipated in that particular location. This means that new dumping grounds will be searched for on this small island, polluting more of Kauai. However, some of these landfills are well maintained and designed as a part of waste treatment. Weather it be solid or liquid matter that is contaminated, it will eventually make its way into the ocean or onto the

This could be very beneficial for the earth and the economy. This could help the economy by making more jobs in the waste business. For example companies would need more line workers to sort trash they would also need more people to collect the waste. Also states would be collecting more money when recycling. States could use this money to make recycling easier for their community.

Scientist 1: The landfill sizes are increasing. Garbage is becoming so expensive because there are less places to put it and it costs more to move it. Every year 121 million tons of waste are deposited in U.S. landfills

"Creative use of landfill gas (LFG) includes heating greenhouses, producing electricity and heat in cogeneration applications, firing brick kilns, supplying high–Btu pipeline-quality gas, fueling garbage trucks, and providing fuel to chemical and automobile manufacturing. Projects range from small–scale community–driven initiatives to multi–million–dollar private investments."

Those of us here at Mountain View Reclamation center want to give back to our community in more than just waste collection and renewable energy. We want to turn the landfill into a park at the end of its lifetime. A landfill in Staten Island, New York is currently doing this and we would model our process after there’s(Jacobs,2016). It would take several years for it to become functional, but it has the potential to be a beautiful park. When we reach the end of the landfill's

Paper and plastic are not the only thing that needs to be recycled. People with their leftovers should be “separating kitchen scraps, garden waste and other organic waste from the rest of the rubbish stream means they can be used to generate high-quality compost to increase soil fertility for crops and gardens” (Holmes 39). While even taking down plants for our consumption people can help it grow back by recycling and replanting. Instead of letting food and gardens rot away for flies and maggots to get we can feed it back to mother nature herself. Recyclable product should not be stuck to decay and add more to the landfill “but 22% of the municipal solid waste dropped into landfills or incinerators in the U.S. is, in fact, food that could be put to better use