One of the most dangerous ones is the leachate. The leachate is the rain water and other moisture that flows through these dumps. They permeate all the salts, metals, chemicals, pesticides etc. and then they flow out. Studies that show that depending on the situation, the leachate can be up to 20 to a 100 times more organic that the actual garbage in the dump. What’s more is that they end up flowing in to soil and contaminating the soil with the pollutants.

Another side effect of municipal dumps is that as they lie for days together dumped in one place, they decompose. And one of the major gas emissions as a result of that decomposition is the emission of methane. This is produced largely by the decomposition of organic solid waste. This is alongside nitrogen and carbon dioxide. This is decomposition is largely aerobic and non-aerobic. These landfill gases cause the smell that usually comes from landfills. 

While these gases can be used for the better, once they produce gases excess (after being dumped in excess) they can be of danger. There are actually situations where the methane production is so high that explosion happens because of it. Some have even trying using the gases produced as an energy source.     

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