Landfills

Plastic in landfills lasts for hundreds of years.

In March 2014, the Administration released a Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions from landfills, coal mining, agriculture, and oil and gas systems through voluntary actions and common-sense standards.

Food is the largest source of garbage in landfills.

San Francisco has a "zero waste" initiative. It wants to send nothing to landfills or incinerators by 2020.

Roads, bridges, subways, water supplies, oil and gas wells, power plants, sewage treatment plants, landfills—virtually all human infrastructure—is at risk from sea level rise.

The landfills next to large cities are changing the migratory habits of some animal species.

“There is over 21 billion pounds of textile in the U.S. alone, in landfills and I strive to reduce that number, at least a little,” she says.

This company monitors one of Algiers's largest landfills.

Conservation International says an estimated eight million metric tons of plastics go into the ocean every year. And that's not even counting the amount that ends up in landfills or by the side of the road.

Light bulbs should be taken to landfills.