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this is a video and audio production 5 d w. i hope that you will tune in the april 22nd 2024, a mess. 65, broke out at the guys support landfill site in valley. this was no ordinary fire, but a symptom of a much larger problem because it was supposed to have been shut down in 2002 instead of thirty's, reportedly kept sending up to 700 truckloads of thresh there every day. it has filed up almost as high as it touched my home when ways to compose is to release this meeting, highly flammable gas. so not really surprising that the whole thing burst into flames. but me, thing is also a super potent greenhouse gas, the drives global warming. and as our mountains of the trash keep growing, more and more of it gets seeping out of the complex waste sites around the world. but there are ways to stop this. the food scraps, plastic bottles,

pizza boxes. think about how many things you throw weight each day, depending on how in where you live. this might different a lot. different indian dust adult, 500 trends of garbage every day. for the average american, it's $2.00 keels. by the way, the us as the roll champion in waste generation per capita display of growth along with cds and the rising standard of living. this was part of the problem and goes a pool. in 1984, when the lentil 1st opened, dallas population was not even 7000000. now it is about 34000000. dual thirty's weren't ready for that. and on the planet right now, we have 8000000000 people producing 2 point one tons of rubbish every year. according to this new wednes, 3038 percent ends up where it shouldn't some 2700000000 people like access to basic waste management services. so no protection multiplan disposal

due to ramona's, the technical director at the international solid waste association. she's one of the supervisors of this study. so for the lack of those options, what do people end up doing? they take the reast be stopped, the blown on page one, think of whole and dump that we spent. and so this is leading to a practice. there's no precise number for how many such dump sites they are on the planets. but each one is one to many, and it is important to distinguish here between dump sites and landfills. the different things on site is with that is absolutely no environmental control. when it drains the water filters through the waist and fronts leach, it potentially toxic cook, tell us many heavy chemicals and back to read, among other things that so called at the trash. so leaking into the environment either to walk a ways your soil is or your air. um i open blending cancel. all of these are

emissions that are ending up in the environment that are arming. sure, one hand is harming the environment. and when i talk about your inherent, the essentially, if you have contaminated waste is going into a fluid systems under this mountain of thresh, where there is no oxygen. something else is happening. make a t a breaking down organic waste and producing meeting one of the worst greenhouse gases in the short term. it's over 80 times more quote into taking the planet than carbon dioxide. the waste sector accounts for 3 to 5 percent of the whole greenhouse gas emissions dump sites and landfills are the biggest contributors and they're defending terry landfills, which have more environmental controls to try to mitigate all those problems. they started to evolve in the 20th century, especially in the 2nd half. also because the materials using all products had become much more toxic to the natural environment. currently the united states has more than 2600 landfills. that's

a lot of trash. americans have historically relied on landfills for many reasons. just the name of fuel consumption levels are really high. the country has wide open spaces available and using land sewell's, quite often seen as the cheapest option in the short term. that is why half of the trash produced by americans ends up there. so it's no wonder that the holes, the planets biggest landfill of its kind, according to the gain is world records the apex landfill. outside of las vegas, it's big enough to accept waste for the next 250 years. landfill operators use several ways to tackle the problems of dumping trash. to protect the ground from toxic chemicals, they stopped with a large hole in the ground line with giants in front of the layers of synthetic materials. kinda like a huge into swimming pool with a big plastic sheets in it. at the bottom, there's a drainage system to remove the lead shape that generated sensors can also be placed at the bottom layer to detect any possible leaks after delete to district

that it is turned into a usable water nowadays and engineered land. so can also capture most of the main thing to meet it by making a kind of trash. livonia, that stops most of it from going to the atmosphere. as the garbage is dumped, heavy tractors compact it and then cover it with an impermeable layer. dump compact cover repeat over and over again. then that kind of system of pumps. 6 out most of the gas is generated, including the mid thing. at this points there. 2 options. the meeting capture can be bored to a process called flaring that turns it from a super harmful greenhouse gas into a regular home for one. see you too. but this is a huge waste. your comes to the 2nd option method can generate heat, electricity, renewable natural gas, compar vehicles. for example, many us landfills use this technologist and we've been here the immediate at altogether. they produce enough equivalent energy to power 1000000 homes. this

technique, problems to reduce methane emissions by 60 to 90 percent. so problem solved not quite using special infrared cameras on planes and satellites. researches have detected substantial leaks, currents measuring methods which usually rely on ground of cetaceans couldn't detect them. the research has phones that us landfills that meet 1.4 times more meetings in official report. it's but it's not all bad news. this data can help linfield managers to detect leaks and reduce emissions straight away. however, not all solutions and the skills need to be so high tech that because this is a recommendation to reduce methane emissions from landfill is much simpler and more straightforward. reduce the amount of organic waste in them because the methane emissions from landfills are produced when organic matter decomposes underneath a pile of garbage without oxygen. if we are thought the, literally i'm going to destination that with these dark rates. it is that the thoughts probably be situation will talk out. i. this is shara collie,

a scientists we specialized in waste management in india, being a woman wideman i was and when, when does very good flooded the condition of what they did? so you feel do it, didn't scientifically and stuff gentlemen. uh, i think we get back to the stop the meets in admission city in countries like india where around 50 percent of the garbage is wet waist. avoid them using landfills can be really effective. and some places are being quite successful in implementing this policy. take my sewer, for example, with a population of more than one median. it produces between 40500 tons of waste daily . the 3rd is designed to the centralized system in which trash gets collected, segregated, and composted inside their neighborhoods. here it is important to remember that composting is primary anaerobic process with oxygen, where micro organisms breakdown organic matter. it can relate small amounts of

meetings if it's not properly done, if there isn't enough, the ration that is quite, quite often you'll see people turning the compost regularly. in my 2 robots, 50 percent of all waste is combusted for that. the collector goes from door to door, residents, them properly separate their trash, do be find. officials say only 5 percent of the trash goes to landfill, their goal is 0 waste, middle risk management. there's like no risk shown go for the plant or the line for today and simulation slot. and so we had completely managing the risk though we've had receiving from our different lots of mice, 50 corporation. the compost produced is sold to local farmers in the horticulture department. when you look around india, this may feel like a drop in the ocean, but it is a great example that shows it can be done. combusting also sorts out another huge problem, almost one 3rd of the countries farmland surface from slight different nations barkley, due to the heavy use of chemical fertilizers. now we're getting

a compost is being used on farms to restore the land. this is a great example of climbing up the letter of the waste higher key at the very bottom of it, this the worst possible way to get rid of the trash opened burning or dumping. that is where the width weighs we just saw would probably end up then comes disposal without an engine recovery like kinds of lend feeding or incineration. next is waste energy, which is an umbrella term for a few different methods like the west landfills we saw generate electricity out of me. thing here comes with cycling. this is where the composting examples are even better. it is to reuse things often referred to as up cycling. and at the top of it is prevention and reduction. the bark depends a lot on the waste producers. so companies as well as individual consumers go me up and the pyramids is not always easy. closing dumpsite and making lens feel better is a challenge and come to a long process. but it can be done. like can we get diginero it once hosted,

let in america's biggest dumpsite. judging that, i'm not sure which received over 80000000 tons of garbage in 30 years. the surrounding monroe forest was devastated by easily checked the opportunity give me much sense and of it. they search for a fate through my head a keep call. laugh i use the short one shouldn't be bad. we saw the push ellen side, not by edge, went about marty, almost got to at least defy you all are just responsible for this restoration project. don't. this is think they both of them get that by just was point, you know, truth bit, i'm sure i my or i did your mind gives the mileage when i bought it some safety thing, but it died. usually the main roof forest captures a huge amount of su to this kind of invitation can absorb up to 4 times more calvin than other forest. and now we use waste goes to a modern landfill outside of the city. the site captures most of its methane emissions, according to the operator generates enough energy to power seats of $90000.00 residents. it is

a modern engineered landfill which costs at around $19000000.00 us dollars or. but that doesn't mean that the problem is solved in nearby grandma. sure, there's still a legal dump sites. and even in the restoration project itself, there were problems with leaking lea checked in 2014, which now seems to had been assaulted. this approach isn't cheap and it's not perfect, but it does have a lot of potential look at this graphic. it shows regions that's to have a huge number of opium dump sites. in this case, some experts suggest that moving from dump sites to lentils would already be a step forward. and the top of that separating at least organic trash before sending it to the landfill. like in my series is something we can do when a global level of test reducing waste is the top priority to can also be reached worldwide. it is placed at the top of the pyramids. let's face it right now. we're producing more and more trash worldwide. the power of smart waste management,

instead it can reduce costs in the long run. the higher up into waste pyramids, you go, the more money you can make from the trash. so just by making energy, our re sending trash this company and to more ways to collect in a controlled way, the less com it does to the environment. and the less money is needed to clean up this mess the, what about you? do you have any problems with dump sides or landfills nearby very leaves and you cool solutions are wrong. let us know in the comments below. keep the light button a subscribe to our channel, release new fetus for you. every friday, the . the for the freeman house on this hollows in northern germany. my grandmother,

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