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I have researched about how waste disposal affects the environment with a partner and we were pretty stunned about environment issues, we decided to put our information collected on the web to contribute to stopping global warming. Waste gets taken away by the garbage truck every week, well at least in New Zealand it does. The waste is then taken to a transfer station and is loaded onto a trailer with a few other garbage truck loads. The trailer then takes it to the final destination, a landfill. Landfills are holes in the earth filled with garbage, it is the cheapest way for the disposal of rubbish and is the least troubling, garbage is dumped here because its far away from people causing less health problems. But it still is a big problem because It takes Plastic, steel, aluminium and even paper and cardboard take tens or hundreds of years to break down. Garden rubbish and kitchen scraps, when broken down in a landfill this creates methane which is a really bad greenhouse gas. And once it rains the rainwater weaves through the landfill and collects a substance known as leachate which can contaminate ground water and other substances.
We have conducted a survey for the knowledge of people around us getting information about the most eco friendly method, I used three waste disposal methods and surveyed them, landfills, Incineration and Anaerobic digestion. Incineration is when the waste is destroyed, this contaminates the air but can use the waste energy to generate electricity. Anaerobic digestion is when people leave waste to decompose in an enclosed environment, oxygen free. This makes lots of methane which can be burnt for electricity also the leftovers produces a fertilizer, and landfills are pretty simple… the survey was conducted out of forty three people and Anaerobic digestion won. It seems people know what is bad and good but why don’t they change, money is the answer, it was pretty odd to me why can’t u just give some money to help the world so that it’s not destroyed! I researched that landfills are the most common method throughout the world mainly because it’s cheap and workers require less experience allowing a smaller pay, also because some things that you can’t recycle or throw into a compost can go in there (broken light bulb).
Waste disposal is a big thing contributing to the environment and can also be very harmful, the greenhouse gasses released are causing climate change and global warming producing numerous amounts of problems that will eventually turn into deadly situations. If this problem is not solved and little action is taken against it there will be many consequences such as climate change melting the arctic and Antarctica wiping out so many creatures, a large increase of natural disasters, practically at the end the earth will be destroyed. But we can still take action , just the little things like avoiding poorly made goods and getting products with recyclable packaging or reusing containers. Composting and recycling are the best ways though but if you can’t think of anything you can just get a guide off the internet.
