Climate notes: mountains of garbage – a threat not only for our climate

Smoking chimneys, deforestation, extensive livestock farming – all these are seen as directly responsible for global warming. But the garbage that accumulates in every household has direct negative effects with regard to the climate. A tonne of garden and kitchen waste, with open decomposition in a landfill, generates nearly 1.2 tons of CO2-equivalent gas. Ways of preventing such emissions are the recycling of waste and the generation of energy from waste.