Myths down the drain
Dec 10, 2017
2 minutes
New Zealanders send 700,000 tonnes of organic waste to landfill each year.
This is the single largest component of municipal solid waste, and once in landfill, it quickly decomposes and produces methane, an environmentally harmful greenhouse gas at least 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Landfills are the third-largest source of methane in the world,
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