Landfills: a serious problem for the environment
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Landfills are the antithesis of sustainability. This is how the garbage impacts in our environment.
The world keeps generating more and more rubbish. According to a report conducted by the World Bank, the planet produced 2.01 billion tons of waste in 2016 – a figure that could rocket to 3.4 billion by 2050, representing an almost 70% increase in rubbish in just 30 years. We live in a throw-away society and we’re paying the price; we don’t know what to do with all our waste.
Thanks to the help of citizens who separate recyclable waste and the authorities that have acted effectively to treat it in its recycling plants, much of the waste we generate takes on a second life, though this is unfortunately not standard practice. Most rubbish ends up in landfills.
The report conducted by ISWA (International Solid Waste Association), one of the world’s leading organisations in the solid waste treatment sector, A Roadmap for closing Waste Dumpsites, determined that landfill sites currently con...
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