We need to fix landfills – here's how

Almost 40% of all garbage still ends up on places where it should not, mostly landfills. They cause many diseases and are a massive driver of climate change, releasing methane. The solutions vary from high tech modern landfilling to simple waste segregation and composting.

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Credits:
Reporter: Albert Steinberger
Video Editor: Markus Otto Mörtz
Supervising Editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Fact-Check: Alexander Paquet
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Read more:
Global Waste management Outlook 2024:
https://www.unep.org/resources/global...

World Bank Publication: What a waste 2.0:
https://datatopics.worldbank.org/what...

Global Methane pledge:
https://www.globalmethanepledge.org/

Study: Quantifying methane emissions from United States:
landfillshttps://carbonmapper.org/study-finds-...

Environmental Protection Agency (US): Facts and figures:
https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures...

Chapters:
00:00 Garbage Fires
00:50 A Global Problem About to Get Worse
03:27 Design and Engineering Solutions
06:19 Reducing Organic Waste in Dumps
09:36 Dumpsite Restorations
11:10 Conclusion: The Bigger Picture