Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?
While this substantial pollution and health problem has attracted little research attention, some researchers in a variety of countries have been investigating the problem.
Sri Lanka Guardian The Long Read
( February 23, 2018, Victoria, Sri Lanka Guardian) Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why.
To start, just listing the types of rubbish generated by humans or the locations into which each of these is dumped is a staggering task beyond the scope of one article. Nevertheless, I will give you a reasonably comprehensive summary of the types of garbage being generated (focusing particularly on those that are less well known), the locations into which the garbage is being dumped and some indication of what is being done about it and what you can do too.
