" Pollution comes out of landfills in the form of nasty gases, too. you see when the organic material( banana peels, yard waste, soggy pizza boxes, etc.) in landfills rots, it releases a methane gas."
When you throw trash or liquids into a dump it releases many gases because of it’ s oder and rotting. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is very hazardous to inhale and not good for your body to breathe in. dumps are very smelly and dirty places that you probably would not want to be near.... or even live close to.
" This liquid, is called leachate, can seep directly into the ground, contaminating surface water, underground water supplies, and anything else in its path. Contamination of underground water is worse than other kinds of water pollution because we can ' t see it so we have a hard time tracking it."
The liquid from landfills can seep into the ground and pollute the water with all the animals in it. The liquids in these landfills can be really bad for our environment and make it sticky and it will turn into leachate that will go underground. you can’ t see this water pollution so it takes a lot of time to track it and find it. This liquid is very bad for people to breathe in. Think about if you lived next to a landfill with all the bad stuff coming out of it and the smells and the noise with the trucks all day long.
Reduce, Reuse, and recycle
" Millions of Americans are familiar with the phrase " reduce, reuse, recycle." The slogan became popular in the late 1980s, when many people, environmentalists in particular, were sounding the alarm over a perceived waste-disposal crisis."
When you say these words reduce, reuse, and recycle what do you think of? In my mind reduce, reuse, and recycle mean that when you recycle something you can reuse it and it reduces the amount of trash we waste in our country. When i recycle something i think most about how can we reuse it? How can we save it and use it again? But I always wonder does it go to people that don’ t have as much as I do? Where does all the recyclables go?
My Point Of View
At my school there are many recycle bins, but of course many trash cans. All the teachers encourage all the students each day to recycle, but i don ' t think many kids know exactly where all this trash is going. When you are finished eating at lunch take a couple seconds before you throw away your trash and ask yourself where is all this trash going? Can this water bottle be recycled? It could really make this world a better place and help decrease the waste of our natural resource.
“ What we are today is a result of our past actions; whatever we wish to be in the future depends on our present actions; decide how you have to act now.