Landfills

1. How much waste does one person make a day?
-4.6 pounds
2. Of all waste created, what percentage is recycled or used as compost?
-32.5 percent
3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
-251 million tons
4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
-Dumps are an open hole in the ground where trash is buried and that has various animals that are swarming around. While Landfills are carefully designed structure built into or on top of the ground in which trash is isolated from the surrounding environment is accomplished with a bottom liner and daily covering of soil.
5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
-I really have no clue..... to me its better if there isn't any water near a landfill. It probably makes the trash decompose faster or easier.
6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
-There has to be much more extra land surrounding the actual land fill for the the support areas. This is for runoff collection ponds, leachate collection ponds, drop-off stations, areas for borrowing soil and 50- to 100-foot buffer areas
7. Consider - considering how much trash Americans produce each year, what do you think are some potential problems that we may encounter?
-I think potential problems we may encounter is that we have too much trash and no way to decompose it or the wastes go into our waters and kills many animals which is return kills of the human race because we have no animals to eat or that our cities will become filled with wastes because we produce so much wastes that there isn't enough landfills to put them in and the world becomes an unsanitary place which causes many diseases and kills many people.