{"id":252506,"date":"2024-06-13T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T13:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/talking-trash-the-truth-about-landfills\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T13:47:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T13:47:59","slug":"talking-trash-the-truth-about-landfills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/talking-trash-the-truth-about-landfills\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Trash: The Truth About Landfills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"custom-caption\">An aerial view of a pile of trash in a landfill. In the U.S., landfills accept 146 million tons of waste each year. Photo credit: Avigator Fortuna.<\/p>\n<p>For many people, landfills are an abstract concept. Few have ever visited one. Instead, all we know is the loud and malodorous but relatively painless process of trash trucks rumbling through neighborhoods each week to whisk away our discards. Or, perhaps, taking our trash to a local transfer station. As far as we\u2019re concerned, that\u2019s the end of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Except, that\u2019s rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, our garbage begins a second, very long life in landfills, which in the\u00a0 U.S. accept 146 million tons of waste each year. In New England, 75 landfills accept what amounts to 4.5 pounds of trash per person per day. Plastic, food, textiles, wood, yard trimmings, glass, metals, and paper end up in these garbage dumps. In other words, many&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clf.org\/blog\/talking-trash-the-truth-about-landfills\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=talking-trash-the-truth-about-landfills\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at www.clf.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aerial view of a pile of trash in a landfill. In the U.S., landfills accept 146 million tons of waste each year. Photo credit: Avigator Fortuna. For many people, landfills are an abstract concept. 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Instead, all we know is the loud and malodorous but relatively painless process of trash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":252507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Talking Trash: The Truth About Landfills - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clf.org\/blog\/talking-trash-the-truth-about-landfills\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=talking-trash-the-truth-about-landfills\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Talking Trash: The Truth About Landfills\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An aerial view of a pile of trash in a landfill. 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