Lay off the landfills. Recycle.

Check this link out for more info. on landfills. How they work, where they are, the effects on our environment, etc. Pretty eye-opening. The most staggering part to me is the fact that landfills are not designed to decompose the trash that sleeps within them. 65% of 251 million tons of trash go into landfills each year to just sit. Imagine, decades down the road, your great great grandchild purchasing a nice little piece of land with a view, building a house and then realizing only after their entire family started to get sick, or their house started sinking that they had built directly on top of a landfill. Seems far removed and impossible to us now, but could it happen? Yes. Do you know where your local landfills are? Do you know where every landfill in your area has been for the last 50 years? http://earth911.com/blog/2009/03/30/the-lowdown-on-landfills/