What do you mean by landfills in waste management
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A landfill site (also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump or dumping ground and historically as a midden) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial. ... Historically, landfills have been the most common method of organized waste disposal and remain so in many places around the world.
Let’s take a look at landfills. One of the most common forms of waste management, landfills are large holes carved into the ground that are lined with clay and plastic to hold waste. As of 2009, there were roughly 30,000 landfills in the United States.
While common, landfills pose a number of problems–many of them significant. Methane and carbon dioxide, for example, are often released by landfills into the air. Methane is particularly problematic, as it is up to 20 times more effective than carbon dioxide in terms of trapping heat in the atmosphere