The Pros And Cons Of Landfill

Over the years, our world has become filled with so much trash. Not only has the land become filled with trash, but the oceans and bodies of water around us have become more polluted with trash. What people do not understand is, it is not very hard to pick up a piece of paper, or a plastic bottle that is lying around them. Our country’s citizens have become too lazy to care about what our country looks like. These pieces of garbage are not only making our country’s environment look bad, but is putting a lot of animals, and marine life in danger. There is so many different types of trash that make our land filthy that could be resolved. Thinking about recycling, many people do not consider recycling water. Although you cannot see water being …show more content…
The biggest landfill has 1,500 trucks delivering 12,000 tons of garbage a day. This landfill is in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The amount of waste that this landfill is currently holding is around 3.7 million tons. That amount of trash covers 700 acres and towers almost 500 feet tall ("Puente Hills..."). Smaller landfills are also becoming overused. Smaller towns do not have as much of land to work with like Los Angeles, so trash collectors are having to drive this trash to the next open landfill. On average, it costs thirty dollars per ton to recycle trash, fifty dollars to send it to the landfill, and sixty-five dollars to seventy-five dollars to incinerate it ("Main Navigation"). It costs a lot less to recycle than to take garbage to landfills. By recycling, money would be saved and the landfills could be put to better use. If more recycling was done, our country would be reducing …show more content…
If people were to be getting rid of clothing, they should not just throw them away; there is people in need of clothes, so other people should donate if they are getting rid of clothes. To reduce landfills, people should stop buying fruits and vegetables with a plastic covering. This is extra plastic that is just going to be thrown away. When somebody finishes a beverage out of a plastic bottle, their thought is to throw it away. If people were to save those bottles, or wash these bottles, they could use their bottle for another beverage. The last idea to reduce the amount of landfills is by having people creating compost. By creating a compost, we could be helping animals, and insects, but also be helping our soil. There are many acts that people could do in order to decrease the amount of landfills that fill our