BenjaminHCCarr, 
‘#Garbage Lasagna’: Dumps Are a Big Driver of #GlobalWarming, Study Says
Decades of buried #trash is releasing #methane, a powerful #greenhousegas, at higher rates than previously estimated, the researchers said. #EPA estimates that #landfills are the third largest source of human-caused methane #emissions in the #UnitedStates, emitting as much greenhouse gas as 23 million gasoline #cars driven for a year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/climate/landfills-methane-emissions.html
https://archive.ph/88k7a #climatechange #climatecrisis #compost
