Advantages
- Unlike dumps, landfills are managed making them more safe
- Efficient to get rid of waste
- Deals with problem in a professional environment
- Some landfills convert gas created on site to energy Eg. electric or alternative fuel
- Energy created reduces our need for fossil fuels which may pollute the environment
- Biomass energy produced is renewable
- Produces even more energy than wind and solar
- due to biodegrading process compost is made for plants
Disadvantages
- Habitat of wildlife is destroyed
- Agricultural land can be taken away
- Methane can be created
- Contributes to global warming
- Local air pollution
- Water supply can be contaminated
- Low payed jobs in the area
- Trucks delivering the waste are big and noisy and can easily disrupt the local community
- Very smelly
- Kills wildlife
- Can get rid of homes and communitys