Landfills

1. How much waste does one person make a day?
-4.6 pounds  a person.

2. Of all waste created, what percentage is recycled or used as compost?
-32.5 puonds is of recycled or composed.

3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
-55% is thrown in land fills

4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
-dump is  a whole in the ground with trash.
-a land fill is carefully created above ground.

5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
-so it dosent get caught in fire,so exess water isent wanted so that potential leakege from the land fill will not enter the ground water.

6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
-for sanetery reasons ,so it dosent hurt the enviorment.

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