57.50% - Modern engineered landfills have geomembrane liners, leachate collection, and methane capture — they're not the open dumps from 1965, and the narrative needs to catch up.
22.50% - Accepting glass, wet cardboard, and mixed plastics together guarantees contamination that renders the whole batch landfill-bound — these programs are structured to fail.
20.00% - Stockholm heats a quarter million homes on waste incineration; Japan has hundreds of plants operating safely near residential neighborhoods — we built a few in the 1970s and then dumped in landfills ever since.
Landfills are maligned based on outdated assumptions about facilities from decades ago.
100.00% - Modern engineered landfills have geomembrane liners, leachate collection, and methane capture — they're not the open dumps from 1965, and the narrative needs to catch up.
50.00% - Landfills are maligned based on outdated assumptions about facilities from decades ago.
50.00% - The landfill stigma is decades out of date relative to modern managed facilities.
0.00% - Landfills are unfairly maligned.
50.00% - Landfill leachate
