This disscussion has been a long topic for about 5,000 years! We have to deal with trash surrounding us when we go outdoors or even in the ocean. There are local dumps in a lot of countrys but we still dont throw away our trash. There are hills and heaps full of trash around the world and like I said before its getting in the ocean and killing animals cause they either eat the plastic or it can choke them. So by having landfills not near the ocean then it probably won't happen as much as it already does.
Basically every town has a garbage man, but where do they bring your trash? When landfills are in town and nearby they will take it there and the people there create a landfill full of trash to get rid of. They bury it into the ground with soil or sludge. But some companys get there landfill and put it in a nearby river or sometimes lakes and then that trash can flow to the ocean and kill more animlas. But did you know that in 2016 there was an estimated answer of 2.7 million metric tons of plastic waste in the ocean.
Many people belive that landfills are okay for the enviroment because it keeps the trash in one place rather than scattered. More cities, and towns are starting to add more trash cans to their public areas. Also adding dumpsters around the town like in allys would help too. But if there arnt lots of trash cans people will tend to litter, and thats why trash gets to the ocean.
If we keep littering our trash will hurt the earth and it wont be good. It would pollute the neighborhoods, down size property values, also it will destroy the city' s natural beauty. So basically it would kill the earth. So if we just throw away or trash rather than litter it would make our planet better, and landfills should not dump the trash into the ocean but also should not bury it in soil cause it pollutes the plants and could burn and explode even! Because trash contains methane gas and methane gas presents a hazard which can cause an explosion.
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1. What do you think would happen if we stopped dumping our trash in unwanted places?
2. If we could not dump our landfill into the ocean what would be a good alternative?
3. Should the U.S ban littering and make more trash cans?
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A good alternative to landfills would to be to start a societal push to begin to recycle more. Almost all materials can be recycled and made into something again. It's becoming increasingly important to keep trash out of places it doesn't need to be, as it polutes ecosystems, kills animals, etc. I don't think outright banning littering would do anything, as most of the time littering is illegal, just is rarely inforced, I think there should be more of an inscentive to pick up trash as a form of volunteering.
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