Landfills

1. How much waste does one person make a day?
Americans generate trash at an astonishing rate of 4.6 pounds (2.1 kilograms) per day per person
2. Of all waste created, what percentage is recycled or used as compost?
32.5 percent, was either recycled or composted
3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
The United Kingdom ranks highest, burying about 90 percent of its solid waste in landfills.
4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
One of them is throwing trash like wherever and the other one is Art.
5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
so that any potential leakage from the landfill will not enter the groundwater or watershed

6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
so that the water or the waste doesnt go around the place and people just ignore it because the it would become trash again.

7. Consider - considering how much trash Americans produce each year, what do you think are some potential problems that we may encounter?