landfills

I. Introduction to Landfills

A landfill is a place where our waste and trash is stored. Sure landfills store our trash, but cause harm to the world and environment. There are many problems with landfills. Pollution is a major problem that is caused by landfills. Toxic gases, fires and land usage are three other big problems caused by landfills. Not only are landfills polluting the air and other resources, they are killing wildlife and plants that live near landfills. Landfills may store trash we don’t need anymore, but are causing many problems much worse than thought to be. Some landfills are open 6 days of the week and are open for maybe five to seven hours a day. Landfills have been around since 1988 in the United States. So for about 25 years, landfills have been used. 25 years of trash being thrown into landfills and some stuff hasn’t gone away yet though decomposition.

Landfills have been made in areas with lots of land ad landfills do take a lot of land, but more land than what is needed is taken. Sure there are reasons why like just in case or for safety reasons but hundreds of more feet of land isn’t used and there are tons of landfills. Landfills do take our trash away but cause many harmful problems just having them in existence.

II. Problems: Pollution

Pollution is the action or process of making land, water, or air unsuitable to use. Landfills pollute the air from all the gases and chemicals released in the air. This is really bad because people and animals need air to breathe. If we can’t breathe then we are going to die. Air is the most essential resource we need to survive. There is no solution to live without air. The reason we need air is because it contains oxygen that helps our bodies to work the way they ...

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...about people putting stuff they don’t need any more on their curb and letting people take it for free. This way, other people can use the stuff you have that you don’t need or use any more.

Yard sales are another solution. It gets rid of some of your stuff and other people will take the stuff on sale and use it so it doesn’t end up in a landfill.

X. Conclusion

Landfills are bad to the world and shouldn’t be used like they have been in the last 25 years. If the use of landfills continues, it could drastically affect the earth and cause more problems than we can handle. So if we want to live without pollution or others problems coming up or getting worse, we should all stop the use of landfills. If everyone stops using landfills, the earth can remain the way it is or get better if landfills don’t cause problems by the doing of everyone stopping the use of landfills.