What is thrown away into a landfill?
no rubbish
Answer:
Everything you do not recycle is thrown into a landfill.
Percents would vary according to facilities that are available for recycling, and the encouragement passed along to its residents.
No percentges. Rock, cement, concrete blocks, bricks, dirt. Layer of dirt on the top.
100% trash.
Basically trash. Anything ranging from metal scraps to old plastic jugs. A lot of people don't recycle so it goes into waste in the landfills.
All garbage lol
Anything from Old papers to plastic jugs
Whatever's not recycled!
It depends on what type of Landfill you are talking about. There are landfills which are rated by class of the toxicity of what is being dumped there. I noticed the first answer indicated concrete, wood, etc. That is probably a Class IV. It contains no liquids. A Class I is the most hazardous besides nuclear/gold mine ponds. A Class I Landfill takes in the waste that humans use. All the way from paper to body parts disposed of from hospitals.
I don't really know how to answer what percentage, but I can tell you that Landfills are rated by their State or City and are monitored by how much air space they take up.
In the City of Little Rock they built a brand new 10 acre cell, which was allowed to reach the height of some 300 ft. of Compacted garbage, and In one year (with 2 other large landfills operating in the same city), it was ready to be capped, and a new cell had to be built.
There is some recycling in that City/County, but prob. 85% goes to Waste.
paper and cardboard, construction debris, glass, plastic, aluminum, diapers is a big one, styrofoam, and lots of hazardous wastes/materials.
I only know cause I teach environmental education
The EPA Has determined the following percentages of MSW in a typical Municipal Solid Waste System for the year 1996. the distribution is as follows.
Corrugated Cardboard 22%
Paper board 10.3%
Kraft paper 4.9%
Buble wrap 0.6%
Styrofoam 2.5%
Glass 19.7%
Iron .8%
Aluminum 7.9%
plastic film4.0%
other plastics 1.4%
computer paper 10.3%
Copy paper0.9%
Manilla paper2.9%
newspaper 5.2%
glossy paper 5.1%
mixed paper 8.1 %
food scraps 1.0 %
White Goods/furniture 0.1%
Electronics 0.2%
Hazardous materials/oils 10.7%
Yard Waste 1.2%
rubber 2.0 %
other miscellaneous waste 3.3%
This is based on Weight not volume. and keep in mind that this is as of 1996 so the ratio of computer paper to copy paper has shifted due to the increased usage of home computer printers which use copy paper.
Raji the Green Witch
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