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ValentinkaMS [17]
3 years ago
6

Explain how solid garbage in landfills can result in air pollution.

Biology
2 answers:
sveta [45]3 years ago
8 0
Let's think about this one, we know gasses rise to the top of things so does burying it in the ground prevent this also think of other ways it can get into the  air (EX: into streams and taken into air via water cycle)
Lerok [7]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

By release of methane gas

Explanation:

Most of the waste in a land fill is biodegradable which releases methane gas in the air while degrading.

Methane gas is a green house gas which is able to entrap the heat radiated back by the earth. Entrapping of heat energy causes rising of global earth temperature thereby causing global warming.

Methane is much dangerous than carbon dioxide as it entraps twenty time more heat radiated by earth.

Hence , in this way  solid garbage in landfills can result in air pollution.

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