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Studies researching the negative effects of landfills are the necessary first step in making them environmentally friendly. How else would we know what to do?

Perhaps whatever you have in mind has to do with people's desire to keep more garbage out of the landfill in the first place? I don't know.

> They have their own solutions, and activists often force things like recycling at all costs, even though it means shipping it across the world on polluting boats and having some other country dump it in their rivers.

I don't know what that's referring to but where I live, the vast majority of recycling does not leave the province. So I can't really empathize with the example, I'm aware of the trope though. Perhaps this is one of the things that's much different in the US and less so in other places.




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