Today I was researching about recycling projects and I found this article about landfills. To see why recycling, reusing and reducing are important we must first see the horrible effects that occur. Many students are misinformed about where all the trash goes when they take it out the the curb. These big heaps of trash are just dumped into a hole in the ground, just to sit and hopefully decompose. The trash "needs oxygen and moisture in order to break down, (and) materials that are buried in a landfill will not decompose very soon. As a matter of fact, when workers dig up old landfills, they often find magazines and newspapers that are still readable! ".The buried trash leaks into our ground water, contaminating drinking water supplies.
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