Isn't lots of plastic trash in landfills a good thing?

Of the 8.3 billion metric tons that has been produced, 6.3 billion metric tons has become plastic waste. Of that, only nine percent has been recycled. The vast majority—79 percent—is accumulating in landfills or sloughing off in the natural environment as litter. read more

It’s a good thing only in the sense that it is preferable to burning it and releasing the embedded carbon dioxide as fuel or combusted garbage, if reducing carbon dioxide emissions are more important to your concept of sustainability than reducing waste volume and land impact. read more

What isn’t recycled ends up in our landfills, he says. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, that’s about 13 percent of the 245 million tons of trash every year. CarbonLite is more than doing its share of keeping those plastics out of landfills and waterways. read more