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Title: The National Recycling Coalition

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Grassroonts Recycling NetworkNational Recycling
and Zero Waste ConferenceDevens Massachusetts
October 2009

Lies, Damnable Lies
and Landfills

by Peter Anderson, Executive Director
Center for a Competitive Waste Industry

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A tale of two futures
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Where do compostables belong

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Greenwashing
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Greenwashing
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Ignored

Most Uncontrolled. More than 3/4th of the gases
produced or mobilized in a landfill are, over
its life, released uncontrolled into the
atmosphere
Source of methane. There would not be substantial
volumes of uncontrolled methane produced from
garbage were we to discontinue disposing of our
organic discards deep in lined landfills

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and reducing methane is vital to avoid crossing
irreversible tipping points

Feasible reversal of the growth of methane
would provide a vital contribution toward
averting dangerous anthropogenic interference
with global climate...Methane deserves special
attention in efforts to stem global
warming...Given the difficulty of halting
near-term CO2 growth, the only practical way to
avoid dangerous interference with climate may
be simultaneous efforts to reverse the growth of
methane.
-James Hansen Greenhouse gas growth
rates, Nov 16 06 PNAS

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A tale of two landfills
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Landfills true impact on greenhouse gases
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The other future is to stop burying organics

European Commission 1999 Landfill Directive
Waste and treatment not acceptable in
landfills.
1. Member States shall set up a
national strategy for the implementation of the
reduction of biodegradable waste going to
landfills not later than 15 years after the date
laid down in Article 18(1), biodegradable
municipal waste going to landfills must be
reduced to 35 of the total amount (by weight)
of biodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995
or the latest year

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and, in North America,124 Cities
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