There are a variety of reasons landfills are harmful to the environment. When a landfill breaks down, it takes many, many years to disintegrate. Years…years are bad. Like I said, it produces many gases to harm the atmosphere. These gases contribute to different climate changes. Also, if the landfill pack is covered too early, it is also polluting the ground and air. Humans keep putting garbage into landfills. The more garbage, the more the world is having weird climate changes and negative effects to our environment.
There are few things that are being done to change landfills. One way is that miners can come, because there are minerals in landfills! When miners come, they can look for rare minerals. Operators can set up a hunt for different metals. If we also educate people about landfills, then people might start recycling and reduce all the garbage. Reduce, reuse, and recycle is a great way for people to help reduce landfills.