Climate change is one of the major environmental challenges of our time. Rightly, the promotion of a sustainable environment is a priority in the Millennium Development Goals, through the integration of environmental concerns and sustainable development mechanisms into policies at the global level, both national and local.
The term sustainable development comes from the English and is now commonly used all over the world. Appeared in 1980 and highlighted in the 1987 Brundtland Report, it is defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
This notion was consecrated at the Rio Earth Summit and today is a doctrine aimed at reconciling two antagonistic and necessary aspirations: the equitable development of societies and the preservation of the environment. According to IPCC assessments, climate change is occurring, and is caused by a significant anthropogenic rise in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, in addition to other natural factors.
These greenhouse gases prevent the infrared radiation emitted by the earth from escaping normally to the atmosphere and cause global warming. There is no doubt that the recent increase in the release of these gases in the atmosphere is the result of human acivity. Factory emissions, polllution, fossil fuel burning, deforestation are some of the reasons such situation is developing in our world. Our landfills are reaching full capacity as we produce too much as a society, and waste too much.
On a global scale, climate change is accompanied by a series of environmental crises due to changes in weather patterns, the consequences of which include heatwaves, droughts, increased frequency and force of cyclone activity, extreme weather events such as wind and precipitation, sea level rise, and floods.
North Carolina landfills
A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment. Unfortunately all the waste materials generated in NC have to end up somewhere, and landfills are still the number one choice. Historically, landfills have been the most common method of organized waste disposal and remain so in many places around the world.
At present, North Carolina has no commercial landfills that accept hazardous waste. However, the state’s hazardous waste program retains hazardous waste landfill regulations that are more stringent than the federal requirements. Private landfills in North Carolina are committed to reducing solid waste through various initiatives, including recycling, which implementation is decided at the local level.
Some landfills only allow land clearing and inert debris such as the landfill in Burlington NC. The materials not allowed or accepted inclide no household trash, no furniture, no appliances or any plastic, and no construction trash, treated, painted or creosote lumber railroad ties or tires, no ground or chipped brush or wood. All this to help the facility works best for its junk disposal duties.
Across North Carolina, we are seeing the proliferation of landfill gas production — benefiting industry, consumers, and taxpayers, while helping provide a cleaner and more self-sufficient energy future. There are five landfills in the Auckland region: they are Rosedale Road landfill, Greenmount Landfill, Redvale Landfill, Whitford Landfill and Hunua Gorge Landfill.
If you have a lot of rubbish at home or at your office, you can hire NC dumpster rentals for the task of disposing of your unwanted waste materials. Once the container is at your location, you can just fill it with all your junk and refuse, and the haulers will take it away to the landfill as soon as you call them.
Buncombe County is the latest to broadcast its plans to utilize a landfill site for purposes of a solar energy farm. To lessen the economic impact of such a project, the County says that, although it will make an initial investment of $26,000.00 for engineering and feasibility studies, the plan will save a lot of money to all residents and reduce the waste as well.