Interesting - How Long Trash Takes To Decompose

The Decomposition of Waste in Landfills - How long it takes various types of garbage to decompose is important. The rate of decomposition can depend on landfill conditions. Plastic products are very common in our modern life. According to estimates, every year we use approximately 1.6 million barrels of oil just for producing plastic water bottles. Plastic waste is one of many types of wastes that take too long to decompose. Normally, plastic items can take up to 1000 years to decompose in landfills. But plastic bags we use in our everyday life take 10-1000 years to decompose, while plastic bottles can take 450 years or more.
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Just in the United States alone, every year more than 18 billion disposable diapers are thrown away. These disposable diapers take approximately 250-500 years to decompose in landfills, thus underscoring the efforts of programs offering diaper and absorbent hygiene product recycling.

Aluminum Cans

Every minute, every day, more than 120,000 aluminum cans are recycled only in America. But, at the same time, in every three-month period, enough aluminum cans are thrown away in America that can rebuild the entire American commercial air fleet. Aluminum cans take 80-200 years in landfills to get completely decomposed.
Glass

Normally, glass is very easy to recycle mainly for the fact that glass is made of sand. Simply breaking down the glass and melting it, we can produce new glass. But the shocking fact is that if glass is thrown away in landfills, it takes million years to decompose. And according to some sources, it doesn’t decompose at all.
Paper Waste

Based on volume, paper is the largest element in American landfills. Normally, it takes two to six weeks in a landfill to get completely decomposed. If we recycle paper items, we can easily save a lot of landfill space, while reducing the energy and virgin material requirements of making non-recycled paper.
Food Waste

By weight, food waste is the largest waste item in American landfills. The time taken for food waste decomposing depends on the type of food. Normally, an orange peel takes 6 months but an apple core or a banana peel takes around one month to decompose. An important component of food recycling is having the right container to deal with it.

Different sources have different information on the actual time various waste items take to decompose in landfills.

Cigarette Butts: 10-12 years
Monofilament Fishing Line: 600 years
Rubber-Boot Sole: 50-80 years
Foamed Plastic Cups: 50 years
Leather shoes: 25-40 years
Milk Cartons: 5 years
Plywood: 1-3 years
Painted board: 13 years
Cotton Glove: 3 months
Cardboard: 2 months
Styrofoam: Does not biodegrade
Nylon Fabric: 30-40 years
Tin can: 50 years
Ropes: 3-14 months
Waxed milk carton: 3 months
Aluminum cans: 200-250 years
Train tickets: two weeks
Canvas products: 1 year
Batteries: 100 years
Lumber: 10-15 years
Sanitary Pads: 500-800 years

Wool Clothing: 1-5 years
Tinfoil: Does not biodegrade

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