I chose leakage of landfills because It sounded really bad and I thought it could do REALLY BAD damage which it can so that leads me to this report!
Leakage of landfills
By:Sophie
Contents
1.What is Leakage of Landfills
2.Causes and Effects
3.Problems
4.Solutions
What is leakage of landfills?
Landfills are big holes dug in the ground.They are not dumps,they are open holes in the ground with various animals swarming around. These big holes are where people's trash goes into. Landfills are carefully built into or on the ground which is isolated from the air. Sometimes the landfills leak into the groundwater and the groundwater leads to the Lakes where people get their fresh water from, then it could affect people. But sometimes the polluted water gets into the ocean and then it could cause the sea animals to get sick and when you eat those sea animals you get sick. This is what a landfill is and what it does,and I don't think you want it to leak.
What are the Problems?
Some of the problems are really severe. Butt one that is really bad is stormwater drainage, Stormwater drainage happens when roots get cut down or trees fall over then the soil gets into the creek by a storm that washes it down. Also the landfills will the eventually leak then people will drink the polluted water and get sick. As you can see there are many ways to get sick so we need to prevent it from happening. The landfills might leak the pollution and it also might get to the seaweed and animals then people will eat it and get hepatitis.
What are the Solutions?
Try and throw less harmful trash in the dump or just throw less trash away. Make posters to persuade people who are not reading this to throw less harmful trash away. In one city they sell trash bags that are really expensive and those are the only trash bags, so then people will recycle more recyclable things and the landfills are not quite as full and have a not as big chance of leaking!! YAY!! Because the things in the future will not be good.At many landfills there are pipes that go down to the ground water then it takes a sample to see if it is healthy and if it is healthy it sent of but if it is not healthy that lets them know they need to stop it from leaking.Another solution is to put a recycling center where people can drop of recyclable items. Another solution is to put a recycling center where people can drop of recyclable items.
By:Sophie
Contents
1.What is Leakage of Landfills
2.Causes and Effects
3.Problems
4.Solutions
What is leakage of landfills?
Landfills are big holes dug in the ground.They are not dumps,they are open holes in the ground with various animals swarming around. These big holes are where people's trash goes into. Landfills are carefully built into or on the ground which is isolated from the air. Sometimes the landfills leak into the groundwater and the groundwater leads to the Lakes where people get their fresh water from, then it could affect people. But sometimes the polluted water gets into the ocean and then it could cause the sea animals to get sick and when you eat those sea animals you get sick. This is what a landfill is and what it does,and I don't think you want it to leak.
What are the Problems?
Some of the problems are really severe. Butt one that is really bad is stormwater drainage, Stormwater drainage happens when roots get cut down or trees fall over then the soil gets into the creek by a storm that washes it down. Also the landfills will the eventually leak then people will drink the polluted water and get sick. As you can see there are many ways to get sick so we need to prevent it from happening. The landfills might leak the pollution and it also might get to the seaweed and animals then people will eat it and get hepatitis.
What are the Solutions?
Try and throw less harmful trash in the dump or just throw less trash away. Make posters to persuade people who are not reading this to throw less harmful trash away. In one city they sell trash bags that are really expensive and those are the only trash bags, so then people will recycle more recyclable things and the landfills are not quite as full and have a not as big chance of leaking!! YAY!! Because the things in the future will not be good.At many landfills there are pipes that go down to the ground water then it takes a sample to see if it is healthy and if it is healthy it sent of but if it is not healthy that lets them know they need to stop it from leaking.Another solution is to put a recycling center where people can drop of recyclable items. Another solution is to put a recycling center where people can drop of recyclable items.
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