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more likes watching it on youtube dw documentary, the on april 22nd 2024, a mess. 65, broke out at the gun support landfill site in building. this was no ordinary fire, but a symptom of a much larger problem. because the pool was supposed to have been shut down in 2002 instead of thirty's, reportedly kept sending up to 700 truckloads of trash there every day. it has filed up almost as high as it touched my home. when ways to compose as a religious meeting, highly flammable gas. so i'm not really surprised at that the whole thing burst into flames. but me thing is also a super potent greenhouse gas to try to 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,
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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 thought is all 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 landfill 1st opened. dallas population was not even 7000000 . now it is about $34.00 meeting. the 30s weren't ready for that. and on the planet right now, we are 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
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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 risk based dr. blown on down page on speakerphone 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. they have a different things on site is with an absolutely new environmental control. when it drains the water filters through the waist and fronts leach, it potentially toxic cook, tell us how many heavy chemicals in back to read. among other things that so called of the trash saw leaking into the environment. either to walk a ways your soil is or you and, and by open blending and so of all of these are emissions that are ending up in the
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environment that are arming, show enhanced, it's harming the environment. and when i talk about your with health, essentially, if you have contaminated waste is going into a fluid systems. under this mountain of thrash, where days, no oxygen, something else is happening. material breaking down organic waste and producing meeting one of the worst greenhouse gases in the short term is over 80 times more potent that he think the planets and carbon dioxide. the waste sector accounts for 3 to 5 percent of all 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 material 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 thresh,
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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 lens. it was 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 effects 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 thresh to protect the ground from toxic chemicals. they start with a large hole in the ground line with giants in front of the layers of synthetic materials. kind of 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's generated. sensors can also be placed at the bottom layer to detect any possible leak,
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so as to delete to district it, it is turned into a usable water nowadays and engineered land. so can also capture most of the meeting and 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 it kind of system of pumps. 6 out, most of the gas is generated, including the missing. at this point there are 2 options. the me think capture can be important for a process called flaring that turns it from a super harmful greenhouse gas into a regular home for one c o 2. but this is a huge waste. fuel comes to the 2nd option. me think can generate heat electricity or renewable natural gas compar vehicle, for example, many us landfills use this technologist and we've been here, they meet it at altogether. they produce enough equivalent manager to color wouldn't meet and homes. this technique promise to reduce methane emissions by 60
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to 90 percent. so problem solved not quite using, specially for red 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 researches found that us landfills, that means $1.00 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 in this field need to be so high tech disease 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 that literally i'm going to destination that with these dark waves. it is that the thoughts probably be situation will talk out. i. so this is for rod collie,
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a scientist. we specialize in waste management in india, being a wall middle adamant and wed went is very good for her to go to nation on monday. the. so you feel deleted scientifically, stuff gentlemen. i think we get back to the stop the meeting, the admission city in countries like india where around 50 percent of the garbage is wet waist avoid to meet the 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 a decentralized system in which trash gets collected, segregated, and composted inside their neighborhoods. here it is important to remember that composting is primary, any aerobic process with oxygen, where micro organizes breakdown organic matter. it can relate small amounts of methane if it's not properly done, if there isn't enough,
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the ration that is white fight off and 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 the trash do be find. officials say only 5 percent of the trash goes to lend, so their goal is 0 waste. middle risk management is like no waste, which one go for the plant or the line for you put in some patients less. so we have complete. do you mind anything the race toby's dad, receiving from our different blocks of my city corporation, the combust 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 salt salt, another huge problem, almost one 3rd of the countries farmland surface from sleep deprivation barkley, due to the heavy use of chemical fertilizers. now we're getting composts is b used
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on fonts to restore the lens. 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 it squared the width ways we just saw would probably end up then comes disposal without an edge of recovery, like kinds of lent feeling are incineration. next is ways to 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 cyclic. this is where the composting examples are. even better is to reuse, things often refer to as up cycling. and at the top of it is prevention and reduction. the bart depends a lot on the waste producers. so companies as well as individual consumers going up into the room, it is not always easy closing dump sites 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 latin america's biggest dumpsite, judging that,
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i'm not sure which received over 80000000 tons of garbage in 30 years. the surrounding monroe forest was devastated by easily changed the opportunity give me much sense and of it. they search for faith through my head a keep call. laugh place. the short one shouldn't be a bad. we saw the boyish fellow saw. nobody went about money, almost got at least the biologist responsible for this restoration project. don't. this is think they both of them just that by just was once you know, truth bit i'm come i or i did your mind get as old. that mileage when i bought it some safety thing, but it died as you my, the main roof forest captures, a huge amount of su to this kind of invitation can absorb up to 4 times more carbons in 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 and off manage it to power seats of $90000.00 residents. it is in modern engineered landfill,
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which costs at around $19000000.00 us dollars. but that doesn't mean that the problem is solved in nearby gra marshall. they're still illegal dump sites. and even in the restoration project itself, there were problems with leaking retreat in 2014, which now seems to have 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 on the top of that, separating at least organic, trashed before sending it to the landfill. like in missouri is something we can do when a global level of tests reducing waste is the top priority to can also be reached worldwide is placed at the top of the pyramids. but let's face it right now. we're producing more and more trash worldwide. the power of smart waste management,
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instead of can reduce costs in the long run. the higher up the waste pyramids, you go, the more money you can make from the trash. so just by making energy or which setting trash this company, and the more waste to collect in a controlled way, the less time it does to things harmons and the less money is needed to clean up this mess the. what about you? do you have any problems with the dump sides or landfills nearby? very leaves and equal solutions are wrong. let us know and the comments below. keep the life button and subscribe to our channel relieves new readers for you. every friday, the of the ankle culture in times of climate change, new cultivation concept,
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