{"id":10942,"date":"2020-09-09T00:33:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T21:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10942"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:14","slug":"waste-not-the-heavy-toll-of-our-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/09\/09\/waste-not-the-heavy-toll-of-our-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste Not: The Heavy Toll Of Our Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every year, the world generates more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openknowledge.worldbank.org\/bitstream\/handle\/10986\/30317\/211329ov.pdf?sequence=11&amp;isAllowed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two billion tonnes of trash<\/a>.&nbsp; Even against the backdrop of a global pandemic, there is much being bought and sold, things are used and discarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People tend to forget about the things they have thrown \u201caway\u201d\u2013 as though they cease to exist when we are finished using them. But material goods don\u2019t just disappear, their environmental impact lingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dumpsites produce methane as organic waste decomposes \u2013 particularly in the absence of oxygen. They are the third-largest source of human-generated methane \u2013 a greenhouse gas that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccacoalition.org\/en\/news\/unea-4-world-needs-improve-waste-management-pollution-free-planet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide<\/a>\u00a0and a major accelerator of climate change. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/waste-not-heavy-toll-our-trash\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the world generates more than&nbsp;two billion tonnes of trash.&nbsp; Even against the backdrop of a global pandemic, there is much being bought and sold, things are used and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}