Human Impacts On Landfills

Our planet is being invaded and destroyed not by some green or blue aliens or by terrorist or some strong government that trying to take over the world. Earth is being conquered by garbage that is filling our oceans with plastic, the land with toxic material that takes hundreds of years if not more to decompose. Much of what ends up in the ocean and landfills could be recycled and people are not being encouraged to recycle more of their household waste. But it is not the trash from our homes that finds its way to ocean and landfills, there is a huge amount that comes from shops, offices, factories and other businesses. Up until now businesses, schools and people have to have to sort all their garbage for recycling but many do not have the time, …show more content…
The impact of man-made debris on ocean ecosystem has not only captured the attention of the scientific community but the general public as well. Most efforts to document this marine debris have focused on beaches, coastal habitats and the surface water of the open ocean. While it is easy for us to notice evidence of human impacts where we live, work and play, there are remote areas on our planet that we rarely see. One of those places is the deep sea. There are Islands of Plastic floating in the ocean like one in the pacific.So far not much have don’t about it. Bacteria, which is usually helps in breaking down materials. One solution is biopolymers plastic or biodegradable plastic. Biodegradable plastic are the plastic industry’s way of trying to remedy the pollution problem, because biodegradable plastic is a petrochemical created plastic, where they add thing to the plastic to which is supposed to help them break down in the presence of certain bacteria. Plastic is simply not a natural substance. While chemists work to have plastics break down sooner, and the idea is that any plastic is biodegradable seems to be incorrect. More research is needed for plastic to be truly