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Landfill
  • 30% of household waste can be recycled as compost. Grass cuttings, veggie scraps, tea bags, egg shells, paper.
  • Cape Town produces enough waste every year to fill  dump trucks from Cape Town to Gauteng.
  • Waste in plastic bags taken to landfill takes 150 years to degrade.
  • The constitution places a responsibility on every citizen of South Africa to reduce waste via recycling.
  • The average home produces around 40kg of compost waste each month.
  • Waste taken to a landfill site produces Methane which is 255x more harmful than Carbon Dioxide.
  • Throwing away mixed waste – biodegradable with non-biodegradable produces a toxic liquid called leachate.
  • Leachate poisons groundwater and creates greenhouse gasses.
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