{"id":1399,"date":"2024-07-02T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2024-06-30T09:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T13:36:40","slug":"how-to-cope-with-our-growing-landfill-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/how-to-cope-with-our-growing-landfill-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Cope with our Growing Landfill Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, landfills seem like a logical solution to our waste \u2014 if we have nowhere else to put it, why not bury it? But landfills present serious and potentially life-threatening risks to nearby communities and the environment , and by 2050\u00a0global waste generation is expected to increase by 73 percent \u00a0from 2020 levels.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an in-depth look at the various types of landfills that exist, the problems they cause, and, most importantly, what we can do about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Landfills 101: Everything You Need to Know<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/landfills-facts-ecowatch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/landfills-facts-ecowatch.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, landfills seem like a logical solution to our waste \u2014 if we have nowhere else to put it, why not bury it? But landfills present serious and potentially life-threatening risks to nearby communities and the environment , and by 2050\u00a0global waste generation is expected to increase by 73 percent \u00a0from 2020 levels.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/how-to-cope-with-our-growing-landfill-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;How to Cope with our Growing Landfill Problem&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}