“I’m a civil engineer. Landfills get a bad rap because they seem horrible, but modern landfill technology is really pretty amazing. … And anything that goes into the landfill does not get into the ocean.” | learn more
“Efforts to reduce the amount of food in landfills produce a lot of pretty infographics but very little change to a deeply flawed food system.” I had to hold my breath to get through some of the socialist-scented paragraphs, but […]
On the topic of things that last a very long time, polyethylene (the most common plastic) takes hundreds of years to decay. That’s a problem because we produce about 80 million tons of it annually, and much ends up in […]