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Landfills affect on the Environment

Landfills present a clear and present potential threat to human health as well as a threat to our environment. As noted even the best landfill liners will leak…”82% of surveyed landfill cells had leaks while 41% had a leak area of more than 1 square feet, “ according to Leak Location Services, Inc. (LLSI) website (March 15, 2000). This is an alarming statistic considering that in addition to leakage, landfills also provide problems to our health and environment through hazardous contaminated air emissions. Over ten toxic gases are released from landfills especially the toxic gas of methane gas. Methane gas is a naturally occurring gas created by the decay of organic matter inside a landfill. As it is formed, it builds up pressure and then begins to move through the soil. In a recent study of 288 landfills, off-site migration of gases, including methane was detected at 83% of these sites. (REHM)

When a new municipal landfill is proposed, advocates of the project always emphasize that “no hazardous wastes will enter these landfill.” Studies have shown that even though municipal landfills may not legally receive “hazardous” wastes, the leachate they produce is as dangerous as the leachate from hazardous waste landfills.


Conclusion

There is no debate that all landfills eventually contaminate our environment and pose a serious threat to our health. In Indiana these landfills are monitored and regulated by EPA and IDEM. The main problem associated with contamination is the “corrective action” that needs to occur to clean up the problem. In a recent study of 163 municipal solid waste landfills, there was evidence of ground-water contamination or adverse trends in ground-water quality at 146 of them. That’s a 90% contamination rate for groundwater beneath municipal solid wasteland fills. Once it is contaminated it is almost impossible to clean it up. The only way to guarantee clean groundwater is to never contaminate it in the first
place. (Zero Waste)



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Landfills: Hazardous to the Environment.

How do garbage and landfills affect my health and the environment?

The biggest problem with garbage is that it never really goes away. You drop it at the curb and it disappears. But that doesn't mean that it is not a problem anymore. It has to go somewhere.

Garbage trucks take it to a local landfill or if you live in a large urban area, to a local waste transfer station. At the transfer station it gets loaded onto even bigger trucks before it’s hauled – sometimes for many kilometers – to a landfill where it is piled up with everyone else's trash. Truckload after truckload. Week after week. Year after year.

Once the garbage gets to the landfill it is dumped and eventually covered by a layer of dirt. Some of it decomposes over time. Moisture and water can filter through the waste, picking up metals, minerals, organic chemicals, bacteria, viruses and other toxic materials. This contaminated water is called leachate. If the leachate is not contained, it can travel from the site and contaminate our ground and surface water.

Put your diapers in your own drinking water and call it just trash. Tim Davis and his family do not want to drink your garbage/trash run off. Don't smart talk me back Call N Alcars, cause I still love you.