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[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A proper landfill is a set aside, contained area, that has systems in place for things like managing pollutants from leaking into the water table, keeping people and animals away from it so as to not infect or injure themselves, monitoring and mitigating the temperature and emmissions of the landfill, etc.

They aren't all so advanced or well staffed, but a whole lot of landfills are, and they are better for the environment and human and animal populations than just letting trash pile up everywhere, willy nilly.

They obviously are not perfect, but they are certainly better than nothing.

EDIT:

... Where do you think all the mangled fishing nets and what not that environmentalists fish out of the sea... end up?

Do... they just throw them back into the ocean?

Or maybe a contained and secure hazardous waste site?

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