Due to its characteristics of perishability, low heat value and high organic matter content, etc, organic wastes cannot be easily disposed by sanitary landfill and incineration.
Forensic experts in Colombia have begun a search for hundreds of bodies at a landfill site believed to be one of the largest urban mass graves in the world.
By taking plastic that would otherwise end up in landfills and combining it with other green waste, they claim they're units can produce enough electricity to power homes, neighborhoods and factories.
My high school best friend and I took a field trip to a waste transfer station in Vancouver, Canada, and we were just astounded by how much plastic packaging goes to landfill.
Powerful countries, and ones that create lots of plastic waste, such as the USA, China and Japan, have recently signed-off on legislation to stop " making our oceans into their landfills" .
There's more financial resources available to fix the problem so there's a happy outcome where less of this stuff ends up in a landfill just because there's more money to be made by keeping it out of the landfill.