Landfills Can Harm The Environment

Landfills can be used in many ways. In fact, the gases in a landfill, like methane, can be used to heat our homes, or gives us electricity, but these gases can be minor. To produce this methane gas and others, H2O and oxygen go into the dirt covered pack. Once this happens, the gases go out doing their evil mission: hurting the atmosphere. In a sanitary landfill, operators have to control the H2O and oxygen. If operators cover the pack too early, the pack will go down and pollute for a long time. Lastly, the gases produce the odor of the landfill.

In Mantua Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, privately owned land once stood as one of the most hazardous waste sites in the United States. This site known as the Helen Kramer Landfill included 66-acres of waste, 11 acres of unfavorably conditioned vegetation, and no onsite residents. Prior to the early 1960’s, Helen Keller landfill was a sand and gravel excavation operation, but soon began to incorporate the disposal of waste material for about a decade. After the landfill received numerous inspections and notices between 1971 and 1977, the owner Helen Kramer was informed to cease operation of the landfill. As New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection reports indicated and area residents stated, “sporadic chemical

Alex Lin and many other teen activists trying to stop toxins from getting into the ground. These toxins can get into natural resources and water systems. Computer chemicals such as lead, mercury, and caldeum are to the human body. When computers are recycled and softly disarranged and recycle, but when they're thrown out they are gathered and put in landfills and dangerously seep into the ground. There is so much electronic waste they have to be cared with bulldozers and many other heavy machinery. This machinery is very expensive. People that throughout computers can just put it the blue bin instead of the green. Also these landfills are ugly sites. Landfills are in places like the outskirts of cities. They create ugly toxic hills that will be placed in the poorer parts of the city (outskirts). Theas landfills have tubes in the ground so the toxins can be released so the ground does not blow up. These toxins are released into the ground and the air for people to breathe. Finally, when People hat breathe this air can become very

In addition, there exist some environmental risks related to producing landfill. Even though the Australian Federal Government is not offering incentives to repurpose waste, some communities and State and Local governments are offering incentives for this practice. The main purpose of this is to avoid the disposing of waste in landfills, due to the fact that it requires so much time, energy and space, injuring our planet's health (McCabe,

Fresh Kills Landfill, the largest landfill in the world (former), is located in Staten Island, New York. It is a total of 2200 acres where it opened in 1948 and lasted until March of 2001. The initial goal of the landfill was to remain open for five years, yet it was open longer, if not for a few decades. This landfill was one of the dominant landfills for storing garbage collected around New York City.

Have you ever wondered where all the trash goes that you throw out? Most of it ends up in landfills, gets burned or ends up on the street. Landfills are the most cost-efficient ways to get rid of trash for places like the United States but at what price. When waste disintegrates in landfills and water passes through the waste, the resulting liquid is called leachate. When leachate run off encounter local rivers and lakes it can contaminate the water and destroy whole eco systems that live in these areas. Landfill gas consists of naturally occurring methane and carbon dioxide, which form inside the landfill as the waste decomposes. As the gases form, pressure builds up inside a landfill, forcing the gases to move. Some of the gases escape through

In 2016, Americans elected a new President, Donald Trump. During his campaign, candidate Trump made several promises about the EPA. One of Donald Trump’s campaign promises that I read on www.washingtonpost.com, “the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might disappear,” reminded me of the “Love Canal” scandal. As a student of biology and geology and a future scientist, the idea that government agencies would no longer assist with the protection of the environment, which includes politicians, was astonishing. According to an Executive Order signed by President Trump and posted on www.epa.gov, the “2015 Clean Water Rule” that protected streams and oceans from environment pollutants was rescinded (2017). The reason the quote by candidate Trump and the executive order by President Trump has any relevance is because these same actions could impact pre-1991 landfills. Landfills built before the 1991 regulations were not required to install barriers that protect the groundwater from carcinogens. There are chemicals that the EPA has determined to cause cancers and presently exist in landfills. Landfills built before 1991 are not required to protect any humans, wildlife or plants, or water from toxins and the new EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt could decide the current regulations are too

Sub-point A: With plastic being everywhere, everytime it gets thrown away or washed down, the toxic pollutants enter the environment and do harm. Trash dumps and landfills are also major problems as they allow pollutants to affect the land and water. It sends chemicals everywhere to harm the environment. The landfills are taking too much space and releases greenhouse gas, methane. It is 25 more times potent than carbon dioxide.

16) Dale Anderson and C Langstan knowingly made, used and caused to be made, a false record and statements to get a false or fraudulent claim for approval of the Landfill permit. [Government," 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(2)]. The Landfill is not 1000 feet from perennial ponds and lakes as required by rule. Other Defendants supported this fraud. It also appears the Defendant is disposing overburden in wetlands in violation of CWA.

*It is important to teach children that it no role is too small and that even the slightest effort to clean up the environment is important. We live in a world where it is normal to throw materials away when we are done with them. Not all people think of recycling or re-purposing items that could still be useful. Landfills are full of materials that can be recycled or reused in a variety of ways. The following story features a lesson from Jhon and his father about pollution and how one man's trash can be a treasure to another man.*

For a household trash landfill (called a municipal solid waste landfill), the ground is fixed first with mud and after that with a skin of adaptable plastic about half an inch (1 centimeter) thick. Over this, channels and pipes gather a fluid called leachate, which is the polluted liquid that streams out of the body of the landfill. Leachate is the liquid that drains or ‘leaches’ from a landfill. It varies widely in composition regarding the age of the landfill and the type of waste that it contains. It usually contains both dissolved and suspended material. Landfills are not made to destroy junk, just to cover it. That is because they contain tiny amounts of oxygen and dampness, which keeps junk from decomposing quickly. So landfills are deliberately filled, checked and kept up while they are active for up to 30 years after they are shut down. Various different things happen once you have brought your recycling into the plant or have it picked up from your home. First, the recycling is brought into the plant and arranged or prepared by laborers who sit close to a transport line where the materials move gradually by for the duration of the day. Laborers isolate out various sorts of plastic, glass, and metal, and place them into canisters or collection bins where they are then moved to an alternate region of the recycling plant to be cleaned or additionally prepared for their final destination.

I 'm a grade __ student and I 've been concerned about our Earth getting polluted by landfills. Landfills are increasing each year because of garbage waste. These landfills contain harmful gases and these gases can release methane and carbon dioxide into the air. This can pollute our water and our air. For example the landfill in the City of Vancouver had been a disturbance for it 's neighbors. It also adds to global warming and climate change. These landfills have garbage which include un-reusable containers, clothing and other equipment.

Landfills cause release of toxic chemicals into the air and cause harm to land and soil.

The most obvious environmental damage caused by solid waste is aesthetic, i.e. waste that litter public areas is ugly and smelly. A more serious risk is the transfer of pollution to ground water and land as well as the pollution of air from improper burning of waste. Many waste activities generate greenhouse gases; e.g., landfills generate methane and refuse fleets are significant sources of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. Open burning dumpsites produce volatilised heavy metals (e.g. mercury and lead), dioxins, and furan. Leachate from unlined and uncovered dumpsites contaminates surface and ground waters (Cointreau, 2006).

Many cities have actually run out of areas to put these landfills so their garbage has to be transported to some other place. Besides household waste the biggest problem is polluting chemicals. Chemicals (e.g. mercury) from electronics go into our water and soil. It does not quickly break down. It takes about 100 to 400 years for things like aluminum and cloth to decompose. Glass has been found in perfect condition after 4000 years. If we continue like this we will be in humongous trouble than we already are. Waste created in industries and hospitals is called hazardous waste which can be harmful and also infectious. There are different methods of disposal for harmful waste.