Land Use #2

 Land Fills

Kara McQuerrey

Landfills take up a big amount of land on the planet. It's not a good thing, trash releases about 800 million metric tons of C02 globally. The United States had one of the highest total quantity of methane emissions from landfills in the year 2010. We really need to reduce methane release from landfills. Some of the larger landfills are required to control methane emissions by installing gas collection systems. After it's captured it's burned for energy. Around 652 landfills have methane capturing facilities. These are said to have helped reduce the release of more than 345 million metric tons of C02 equivalent. The thing about this is that you don't know how much trash is exactly being brought into the landfill. This means you can't tell how much the control on it helps.  The number one way to reduce methane release is to reduce the amount of trash you have.

https://ensia.com/features/methane-landfills/#:~:text=But%20at%20the%20landfill%2C%20the,worsening%20health%20problems%20like%20asthma.