What is the percentage of landfill is trash that can actually be composted?

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And I need biography information too please and thank you

Answer 1

70% of all landfill contamination comes from organic material ,which is maybe  less than a 1/8

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Answer 2

why use landfills

with this process we could turn all of our trash into fuel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tro...

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/03/...

the prosess is called the /Fischer-Tropsch_process

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tro...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karrick_pro...

http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/

http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/fuels/em...

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Fisc...

http://fyi.gmblogs.com/2008/02/more_on_c...

it has been around since the 1920s

it can make oil, gasoline or diesel

it is self powering

Synthesis gas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, is reacted in the presence of an iron or cobalt catalyst; ""much heat is evolved"", and such products as methane, synthetic gasoline and waxes, and alcohols are made, with water or carbon dioxide produced as a byproduct.

and make them from not only coal but any organic like wood. grass cuttings, trash, sewage, Ag waste, cow paddys. ect

this would mean no more land fills, no more trying to find places to dispose of sewage

plus no more toxics leaching from land fills and from sewage plants.

then you might think about using coal when those run out.

Answer 3

In my municipality it is very close to zero, simply because our garbage collection people refuse to accept it and give out fines if you repeat.

Where people are allowed to do it, it is a stinking mess.