You don’t want to live next to the landfill because it poisons the water and the soil.
But it turns out there is also a huge amount of poison gas being released from these landfills.
A poison gas that will shrink your penis.
Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” that leach from landfills into groundwater are among the major pollution sources in the US, and remain a problem for which officials have yet to find an effective solution.
Now new research has identified another route in which PFAS may escape landfills and threaten the environment at even higher levels: the air.
PFAS gas that emits from landfill waste ends up highly concentrated in the facilities’ gas treatment systems, but the systems are not designed to manage or destroy the chemicals, and much of them probably end up in the environment.
The findings, which showed up to three times as much PFAS in landfill gas as in leachate, are “definitely an alarming thing for us to see”, said Ashley Lin, a University of Florida researcher and the lead author of the study.
“These findings suggest that landfill gas, a less scrutinized byproduct, serves as a major pathway for the mobility of PFAS from landfills,” the paper’s authors wrote.
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Typically, flares or incineration will simply break down PFAS into smaller forms of the chemicals instead of fully destroying them, and that waste will be sent into the air. For now, there is no clear picture of the levels, or how landfills can get a handle on the problem.
Here’s the deal: burn the trash.
Just burn the trash.
It’s very simple.
You go way outside the city, you burn the trash, and then you use filters to catch any particulate that escapes from the burning trash, you compound that particulate, you seal it in concrete and bury it like nuclear waste.
Very, very simple.
But they won’t let you do that because they say it changes the weather, so we just have to totally poison the entire world.