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Sunday, January 31, 2010

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  1. Erin M.January 31, 2010 at 10:33 AM

    Landfills
    http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100127/DCP01/1270365

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  2. benking91February 8, 2010 at 2:16 PM

    Hello Group,
    The topic of landfills is extremely important because it refers to the way we dispose of our trash, and at the current rate we are using faster than we can dispose of the waste. This is leading to us needing more and more landfills to supliment our waste output. I believe that Georgetowns decision to ban yard waste from their landfill is a good decision because landfills can only hold so much and should only be used for items that truely need to be thrown out. Anything that can be recycled should, and waste such as yard waste that could be used for other things such as producing fertilizer, should also be somehow recycled. The steps that these cities are taking couold in the long run help the enviroment.

    Ben King

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  3. Erin M.February 8, 2010 at 7:41 PM

    Global Warming

    What can we do about Global Warming? It is destroying our atmosphere and the main cause of it is CO2 along with other gases like nitrous oxide and methane seem to be doin damage too. Cars are the greatest CO2 causes and we can do things to help such as drive less, turn electricity off when not being used, or using the light bulbs that save energy , things like that. I wanted to know if we didn’t use much energy how would the earth be today and how would it improve things? I believe that if more people wanted to fix our environmental problems , then that would change a a lot of things in the world today.

    Javier Ray (reposted by EM 2/8 @ 7:41 EST)

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  4. Kevin SnookFebruary 8, 2010 at 7:43 PM

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  5. Kevin SnookFebruary 8, 2010 at 7:44 PM

    Hello Group,
    It only makes sense that yard waste isn't sent to landfills. The obvious solution would be to divert them to the proper places that will then use them for mulch and compost. Most neighborhoods won't pick up bags of leaves already around Louisville, so it seems like it's already taking effect. It seems ridiculous that they're delaying the ban on yard waste until Jan. 2011 when it came to their attention in 2006. That wasted time could result in countless lost space in local landfills, and even money for the economy from selling the compost. Something as simple as yard waste should be recycled because the by-product greatly reduces wasted space and tremendously helps out the environment.

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  6. meFebruary 8, 2010 at 7:53 PM

    Hey people, Im Adam and i dont know my major at this time. To be honest i dont really care about any of this, excuse me for being blunt. But good for them on taking a stand and trying to improve the enviorment. Its good to give the town a reasonable time to remove the waste and not expect it to be done in a day. I don’t really know what they’ll do with the yard waste but im sure they’ll find a place for it, they may even burn it tomake fuel. I guess this is a good move toward a “green” enviorment which is a good thing I suppose.

    Adam M.

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  7. John CFebruary 9, 2010 at 3:55 PM

    Hello everybody I’m John C and I’m attending JCTC for network administration. It seems like a good idea to me to not have yard waste in the landfills. Leaves and yard clippings make great compost and can benefit people that have gardens, why throw out something that has a purpose. Here in Louisville the city usually has places where people can bring their yard waste and they compost it and use it for landscaping projects around the city. Also they usually take Christmas trees and turn it into mulch to sell or use it for the same purpose. This just makes sense and is a wise way to make use of something that would ordinarily go to waste. Simple little things like these could help ease the problem of growing landfills.

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  8. ElizabethFebruary 9, 2010 at 6:44 PM

    Hello group,
    My name is Elizabeth I. and I’ am attending JCTCS for nursing. I think recycling yard waste is a good idea. We only have so much land you can use to dispose of garbage, and by recycling the things that can be recycled then we could save so much more of our land and not use as much for waste. Also it would not only benefit our economy but it would also benefit our health by breathing in cleaner air. So I think recycling yard waste and using it for mulch or manure would be a great idea. So for them delaying the ban until January 1, 2011 that is stupid, and it is just wasting time.

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  9. RhondaFebruary 16, 2010 at 10:54 AM

    Hello group, this is Rhonda L from another group, in class section # 5708. I am writing in response to Kevin S’s blog regarding your topic on Landfills.

    In Kevin’s blog in which he indicated that yard waste should be used for mulch and compost because the recycled by-products greatly reduce wasted space and tremendously help the environment. I would like to agree with his response and further advance his statements to give even more reason for individuals to begin utilizing other ways for disposing of yard waste besides sending them to landfills. Information taken from the United States EPA site gives specific reasons that yard waste should not be taken into consideration for landfills. The following information was taken directly from the EPA’s website: “Since these materials are relatively clean and biodegradable, disposal in landfills may be unnecessary and wastes space. In addition, as yard wastes decompose in landfills, they generate methane gas and acidic leachate. Methane is a colorless, explosive greenhouse gas that is released as bacteria decompose organic materials in landfills. If methane is not controlled at a landfill, it can seep underground and into nearby buildings, where it has the potential to explode. Yard wastes also contribute acidity that can make other waste constituents more mobile and therefore more toxic. A number of states across the nation have implemented yard waste composting programs.” I looked into composting programs for the state of Kentucky and found that there are currently none listed.

    After reading this information, I have decided to start my own composting site in my backyard this spring. After reading about the positive effects composting provides to the environment, I am convinced I can do my part to ensure environmental health.


    Environmental Protection Agency. 15 February 2010. Web. Internet site specifically designed to answer questions from the public on important environmental issues. http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/rrr/composting/questions.htm

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  10. John CFebruary 16, 2010 at 8:21 PM

    Hello Group
    John C here, Ben when you said “faster than we can dispose of our waste”, that made me think that while yard waste maybe a nice start is it really going to make a big difference. We’ve become a slave to our conveniences in the name of prosperity. I mean that we didn’t use to have this problem. Think of the trash that’s produced from just eating out; imagine if everybody across the United States didn’t eat fast food for one day how much less trash would be produced. According to (wisegeek.com),”most of the stuff that fills the landfills is packaging, especially fast-food containers”. So what’s the answer, stop going out to eat? Think of how many jobs would be affected, that would defiantly not be good for the economy. Maybe just cut back a little, Yea! If everybody just cut out fast-food for one week a year maybe that would be a start.
    Javier you asked “if we didn’t use much energy how would the earth be today”. Well research back thirty or forty years and see what things were like then and how much different our lifestyles were. People didn’t eat out as much as they do now, but with modern conveniences comes modern problems.
    (wisegeek.com)
    John C Sec#5708
    2/16/10

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  11. ElizabethFebruary 16, 2010 at 8:53 PM

    Hello group, my name is Elizabeth I. I ‘am in English class section 5708. I ‘am responding to John C’s blog about not having yard waste in landfills. In John C’s post he talks about how he thinks it a good idea not to have yard waste in landfills and how yard clippings and leaves make good compost for people with gardens. I have to agree with him. According to the National Geographic’s Green Guide, “the best fertilizer for your lawn or garden is home made compost made from yard clippings, leaves, and food scraps.” Also the National Geographic’s Green Guide talks about how you can still buy products from the store to fertilize your lawn or gardens and still use recycled stuff that is healthy for the environment. So yes I have to agree yard waste should not go to our landfills and waste the space, instead we should recycle it and save some of that space for things that can not be recycled. Anything that can be recycled should and if everybody in the economy could do their part and do what they could to help. Then our planet would be much healthier and cleaner for us and our environment.
    Elizabeth I., Section #5708

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  12. Kevin SnookFebruary 16, 2010 at 11:21 PM

    Hello group,
    Ben said that “at the current rate we are using faster than we can dispose of the waste.” I believe that’s true, but with more than 6 billion people in the world today, most of them being concentrated in large cities there isn’t a ‘quick fix’ to the situation. According to Biocycle Magazine, “America generates more waste every year, growing from a 247 million tons of non-hazardous waste in 1990, to 409 million tons in 2001” The numbers are going up because the cities aren’t stressing the importance of recycling, or people just don’t care about the future of the planet. Recycling yard waste is only the beginning of the problem. According to Postal2020.com, the numbers of landfills in the U.S. have dramatically decreased over the years. In 1988 there were almost 8,000, and in 2006 the number dropped to less than 2,000. The only problem with this is that the landfills are getting larger and larger compared to the old landfills. Is this really a step up, or maybe a step back?
    I agree with John C that the little things could help ease the problem. According to Recycling.colorado.edu, “Recycling a 4-foot stack of newspapers saves the equivalent of a 40-foot fir tree, and 1 single tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air.” These small things add up tremendously when you take into consideration that there are over 300 million people in the United States.

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  13. Javier ReyFebruary 17, 2010 at 6:33 PM

    hello group i agree with sending landfills to places that wont affect others around. That way more people will have to worry less about how the environment is going to get worse. Also it will solve the problem of animals that are endangered from waste going into oceans killing marine animals

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  14. Javier ReyFebruary 22, 2010 at 2:44 PM

    Hello group,
    Landfills waste seems to affect the environment a whole lot. There are a lot of factories that recycle the dump and waste for others to be able to reuse in the future. But what happens if we run out of places to put waste, we can only process so much waste at a time and there is more waste than we can ever imagine. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080407155949AAkWhmT posts on yahoo answers stated “Landfills Too Tightly Packed for Most Trash to Biodegrade
    Most landfills are fundamentally anaerobic because they are compacted so tightly, and they do not let much air in. As such, any biodegradation that does take place does so very slowly”. This a result of of how waste becomes harder to get rid of and the liners that cover them are not always going to work. We have to find other ways to recycle waste faster and put it to good use. The gases from those landfills should definitely be noticeable for others to keep away for their own protection.
    http://www.xplosys.com/images/landfill.jpg

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  15. John CFebruary 23, 2010 at 8:09 PM

    John C Sect#5708.
    Hello group. Thanks Kevin for the information on the reduction in the number of landfills I wasn’t aware that there had been that many landfills removed. As far as yard waste, I may follow Rhonda’s lead and start a compost bin myself, but I’m not sure how. I found (Ca.gov Calrecycle) and it had a lot of information on home composting. http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/organics/Homecompost/Bins/Resources.htm.
    Perhaps this is the kind of thing the people of Sussex County have in mind to deal with their landfill problem. Weather we follow Georgetown’s example or come up with our own solutions, eliminating yard waste from our landfills is a good idea for all of us.
    John C

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  16. ElizabethFebruary 24, 2010 at 4:40 PM

    Hello Everyone,
    I agree with Javier Rey about sending landfills somewhere away from people, so we wont have to worry about it affecting us and also how it wouldn’t harm the animals from the waste being dumped. Also I agree with John and Rhonda about starting their own compost bin, I think if everyone did that it would help out on cutting down how much we put into our landfills. Here is a website that I found that talks about how garbage in our land fills affect us and our environment. (http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/en/land/wastedisposal/index.php#health) I picked it because it is what we are talking about and it goes along with our article that we had in class that we have used for our blog. I also tells how we could help out our landfills by not using so much garbage and by recycling it. Elizabeth I. Section #5708

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  17. Kevin SnookFebruary 24, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    Hello Group,
    I think if you two actually did start compost heaps maybe it would start catching on in your neighborhoods and cause a green chain reaction.

    http://www.golfclubatlas.com/images/Wildcat.JPG

    I was looking around on google at some links about landfills and was reading about what happens to the land when the landfill is full. Come to find out that its not really that bad. They can be turned into golf courses, residential, industrial, and commercial building sites, and that most landfills already have a post-closure plan in place. The picture I've included a picture of one of the golf courses that has emerged from what once was a mountain of garbage.





    http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/community/classroom/images/landfill.gif

    The next picture is just showing the percentages of what certain things are disposed of and dumped into landfills. It's not too surprising to see that paper is on the top considering what John C said about fast food containers. 38% of the volume is paper, which can effortlessly be recycled into new paper instead of cutting down more trees. The yard waste is near the bottom of the list but if you add the 11% of the yard waste volume and the 38% of paper that is nearly half of ALL garbage in landfills! I don't believe that going to the extreme of not eating out would be necessary but definitely some kind of recycling should be done to save space. Most states only have 10 more years of space left, and some only have a little as 5, so something has to be done immediately.

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  18. benking91February 24, 2010 at 5:00 PM

    Hello group, i agree with Javier, landfills are filling up faster than imgainable, with population and industrizilation increasing at an alarming rate, more and more trash is being produced. Eventually something will have to be done, because like Javier said the landfills are so full that they are not decomposing fast enough.
    according to theviewspaper.net the fact that the landfills are so full that the waste is decomposing without oxygen producing methane gas which slowly makes its way up to the atmosphere contributing to depleting the ozone layer and global warming. If the landfill problem is solved or reduced that is also going to positivly impact global warming as it would produce methane gas.
    Overall i just think that if everyone decided to even just save a third of their their yard waste for fertilizer it could overall positivly influence the enviroment. Its up to the individual to help reduce this problem
    Ben King

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