Landfill emits plenty of greenhouse gases (mainly methane which is far more greenhouse “potent” than CO2) and does so I manner where they can’t really be captured or filtered.
Waste to energy facilities at least have the potential for filtering and capture and storage.
Landfill also almost always results in toxins leaching into the soil and often into the water table.
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Small correction - The birds aren’t the ones creating that litter…
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If the birds are eating the same junk food we humans are, they’ll soon end up too fat to fly.
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sarc
April 6, 2019, 5:46am
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The Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering 2,200 acres (890 ha) in the New York City borough of Staten Island in the United States. The name comes from the landfill's location along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in western Staten Island.
The landfill was opened in 1948 as a temporary landfill but by 1955 it became the largest landfill in the world and it remained so until its closure in 2001. At the peak of its operation, in 1986, Fresh Kills received 29,000 tons of residential wa...
if the little birdy finds out it might be a migration problem
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Prequel to Hitchcock’s The Birds.
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I have always been an Eagles fan
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Bald eagles are taking trash
Bald Eagles are always talking trash!
Jim4
April 7, 2019, 1:54pm
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It is so incredibly appropriate to be getting this payback from these once endangered creatures. I love it!
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And the raccoons too; I had to put a child-proof lock on our garbage can.
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I’ve seen the same thing on the intercoastal lagoon and oceanfront here in Florida. Although in most cases, the eagle goes away with the fish.
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They really are the best bird representation of our country.
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