• nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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    5 months ago

    Did people at some point really believe that taking out all our trash out of sight and tossing them somewhere else would “save the planet”?

    • Scrommis@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      It does help in a pretty big way - every piece of trash in landfill is one less in the ocean.

      Plus landfills will be literal goldmines in 50 years as we development advanced recycling technologies and robots.

      • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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        5 months ago

        On the other hand, landfills leak contaminants to the soil and water, produce a lot of methane, and probably other things too. I’d also argue that they give a illusion of a problem solved, and lead people and companies into not wanting to reduce trash production.

        • odium@programming.dev
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          5 months ago

          There’s also the fact that a lot of your trash doesn’t go to landfills, but instead gets shipped to developing countries where they often dump it into Wall-E style open air trash mountains.