Explain the difficulties accompanying landfill siting and outsourcing. How can these processes be handled responsibly?

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

"People in residential communities (where MSW is generated) invariably reject proposals to site landfills anywhere near where they live, and those who already live close to existing landfills are anxious to close them down." Some reasons for the opposition to landfills are odors, litter from the landfill, heavy truck traffic, litter next to the roads from the garbage trucks and other users of the landfills, contamination of surface or groundwater from leachate, seagulls and other birds attracted to the garbage, and landfill operators not following rules concerning covering wastes.
Outsourcing is the sending of wastes some distance from the place of origin. Outsourcing "leads to the inefficient and equally objectionable practice of the long-distance transfer of trash, as waste generators look for private landfills whose owners are anxious to receive trash. Often this transfer occurs across state and even national lines, leading to resentment and opposition on the part of citizens of the recipient state or nation."