Environtmental and Global Health

Posts Tagged ‘Controlled Landfills: Drawbacks’

As a result of treatment received reduces the environmental impact of uncontrolled dumping. By coating the waste with soil reduces the proliferation of pests and odor emissions. Since there is no uncontrolled waste burning reduces air pollution. However, there are still many drawbacks:

1. Occupation of the territory. Landfills occupy large tracts of land relatively close to urban centers. By some estimates the waste produced by a population of 10,000 people a year would occupy an area of ??one hectare to 1.2 m deep. The greater the distance increases transport costs increase proportionately and emissions of greenhouse gases produced in transport.

2. Landfills often occupy valuable ecosystems. Occasionally, moist areas of high ecological value have become landfills. Read the rest of this entry »