The need to send less waste to landfill

Think of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ as the hierarchy of reducing your environmental impact. Reducing waste is the best option, followed by reusing and recycling items wherever you can. It’s so important to reduce, reuse, recycle because any waste we don’t recycle ends up on landfill sites. When waste rots, it gives off methane. Methane is one of the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. Another reason we should reduce the amount of waste we send to landfills is that we’re simply running out of landfill space.