NERC Blog

Today's guest blog is courtesy of NERC Advisory Member The Recycling Partnership. The original post can be read here.

Why Landfills Are Not the Answer 

Here’s why we can’t just landfill our way out of the vast consumption and disposal of materials.    

• As climate change increases, landfills continue to be the third largest human-made source of methane emissions, spewing the equivalent of more than 20 million cars of CO2 emissions per year in to U.S. skies.