Landfill Issues Global Concern

• Most trash throughout the world will end up in landfills, some will be remanufactured or recycled, some will be burned and some will be illegally dumped on land and into oceans. !In the United States, 90% of solid wastes are disposed of in some sort of landfill.
• In the last 20 years, there has been growing awareness of the need to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. This is due to lack of space as well as waste of resource involved in this disposal method.

Problematic Dumping of e-Waste

• Many products are being transported to areas without strict environmental controls.
• These may easily be products that consumers think are being recycled, but end up dumped where they pollute water, ground and air.