Instead of emissions from human activities in the fields of energy, forestry, agriculture and animal husbandry, human waste or trash is also a major contributor to global climate change.
Humans in any activity always produces waste that contributes greatly to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) emissions. Scientific facts show that the waste is one contributor to greenhouse gases in the form of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2).
Open Landfills in Final Disposal resulting buried organic waste decomposes in anaerobic, and that process produces gas CH4 (methane). Methane itself has the destructive power of up to 20-30 times greater than CO2.
Trash produces methane gas (CH4) with average composition per ton of solid waste produces 50 kg of methane gas.
Although both produce waste, methane gas emitted number of developing countries and developed countries are not similar. Globally, approximately 65 percent of landfill methane gas emissions from developed countries, while 15 percent of the country in economic transition, and 20 percent contributed by developing countries.
Methane in the atmosphere within a period of about 7-10 years and can increase the temperature about 1.3 degrees Celsius per year.
It turns out that all this garbage we think the only impact of global warming if the burning is not 100% correct. Garbage is not to let it alone also contributes in accelerating global warming. Methane gas that is formed is far more harmful than CO2.
Thus, we must suppress the amount of garbage we are, starting from small things, such as paper, water bottles, food wrappers, etc.. In addition, waste management should also be done with maximum, ranging from the separation of waste types to be easily processed, to how to process them.