Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Those Pesky Plastic Bags
By: Guest Blogger Van Burbach, Ph.D, P.G. As an environmental consultant whose work has focused on landfills for over 13 years, I can tell you that plastic bags are the bane of every landfill! Go to any active municipal solid waste landfill and you will see plastic bags everywhere: in the trees, stuck to fences, floating in retention ponds, clogging storm drains. They are next to impossible for the landfills to control. The wind catches them, and they are gone. This is really