Which takes up less room in a landfill?

[rudeguy]

I would think big, because you can pack more stuff in per bag.

 

[zinfamous]

irrelevant, really. all depends on how well you compress and conserve the material inside each bag, everything else being equal.

which means: are we talking about paper bags or plastic bags? same material for small and large, right?

therefore, I voted for pigs. you should add goats to that option...

 

[CPA]

uh, I would think the bag has nothing to do with the overall area that your total haul of garbage takes. Whether it's one bag with a cubic foot of waste or two small bags each with a half cubic foot of waste, you still have the same amount of waste.

 

[tasmanian]

Packing shit in doesnt matter since the trucks compact it.

 

[woodie1]

The trash truck does some compacting and then the landfill will do even more so it is a wash.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Feed it to the pigs.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Packing shit in doesnt matter since the trucks compact it.

that's what she said?

 

[krotchy]

Yeah, trash kinda compacts regardless of the super-duper strong construction of its less than a mil thick wall....... There is a reason why we don't put our trash in sturdy metal spheres, now that would be a poor way to pack it down.

 

[Jeff7]

Using a larger container will result in less material being used - if you've got 10lbs of trash and use one bag versus several smaller bags, you'll send less waste to the landfill.

Geometry of the "spheres" of trash is irrelevant, as everyone said already, due to the compressibility of the material.

 

[Ksyder]

According to a t.v. show I saw, modern landfills spread the bags out evenly in the landfill and drive over them with a machine that cuts the bags open so that stuff will decompose faster, for whatever thats worth. Any compaction of trash into the bag is probably irrelevant at that point.

 

[imported_Asianman]

Pig, it digests. And then you can eat the pig. More food for you; less waste in landfill

 

[LilPima]

We take most of the fast-decomposing stuff out for compost.... so ours real trash probably sits there forever 😱