RE: Discovering pollution that is worse than imagined
Our whole concept of making something, throwing it away, (into a landfill or the ocean) and expect it to go away is the most nieve thinking in the world and yet this is what the average American thinks, out of sight means out of thinking where it ends up and what the short and long term consequences are....All the landfills we have in the U.S. are like a cancer on the land and eventually on the people..They all leak and end up in our ground water system..A better use is to follow the lead of Europe. They do not allow landfills and thru different processess turn the waste into reusable soil and the balance into energy that is used to create electricity..If we did that same thing we would create enough electricity to power our entire national grid system....
