Landfills

Think of landfills as a giant wastepaper basket that you can never empty. Instead you can only make it bigger and bigger and bigger until it's too big to fit in your house and so you hide it and move to someone else's garbage can. In theory a landfill is a giant whole in the ground that we simply empty all of our junk and all our non-biodegradable trash into. However there are consequences such as chemicals entering water lines causing health problems for the people living nearby the landfills. Landfills are becoming icreasingly dangerous due to the more common dumping of toxic waste. Imagine heaps of stinky, ugly garbage piling up for years and years and slowly polluting the soil all around it, making the virtually impossible for anything to grow in that area. The most horrible part of landfills is that they never go away. The only way we can ever stop this problem is to reduce our unrecyclable waste. Please, this can't continue, something must be done. The longer we wait, the more smelly garbage builds up. It is getting to the point where it is crucial to buy only things that can be recycled such as Baggu and bamboo clothing. Be the first one at school with a t-shirt made of sustainable bamboo fibers and pesticide-free organic cotton.