Victoria Rhodes 5th Landfill Waste

This article discusses how the Landfill is inputting large amounts of greenhouse gases that are currently polluting our air. Nearly 262 Million tons were dumped in landfills in 2012 but the current number is unknown for 2015. Scientists state that the methane emissions released into the air were undercounted leaving us not fully knowing how polluted our air is currently.

To me this is hard to believe how we can overlook such a prevalent problem that is affecting the air that we breathe. its almost as if we don't comprehend the gravity of this issue because the pollution of the landfill will only continue to increase over time. instead of caring where our trash goes, we simply don't care and are fine with wherever it goes as long as its out of our presence and don't care about the repercussions. landfills are the third largest man-made source of methane in the U.S and its scary how there's very little we can do to stop it.  this in a way is similar to when the settlers in the american colonies continued to smoke tobacco that they had planted and worsen the condition in their lungs. they did not fully comprehend what damage they were doing and by the time they realized that it was damaging, it was to late.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/us-landfill-waste-methane-undercounted-150921.htm