Here in the Philippines, dump sites are the biggest cause of air and water pollution. They are big tracts of land where all the garbage collected from cities are taken. The garbage piled at the dump sites create mountain that emit a kind of gas that contributes to the warming of the atmosphere.

It is called methane gas. I researched a little bit about the methane gas and I found out that it is more destructive than carbon dioxide. In fact it is 25% more destructive to the air. Imagine what’s happening to our atmosphere with the hundreds of open dump sites in the Philippines emitting methane gas.

Most of the dump sites are located near bodies of water and so the dump sites are also cause of the water pollution in the Philippines. The plastics and toxic materials in the dump sites find their way in nearly river thus killing the fishes in the river.

Pasig River, the river that runs within Manila is already announced dead, meaning there is no living thing that can live under it. This is partly the result of open dump sites located near the banks of the river.

In small ways, think we can help in decreasing the emission of methane gas in our air by having less garbage. We can recycle all the papers and just flush out the small wet garbage into our toilets.

Papers and wet garbage are two things that produce methane gas in the dump site. By simple reducing our paper and wet garbage, we can help a lot.

Methane gas makes our makes our atmosphere hotter because they trap the sun’s rays in our atmosphere. This is a very serious matter. Al Gore says in his film “An Inconvenient Truth” that we only have a few years in this planet if we don’t act on global warming now.

Reducing our garbage is a very simple way to act against global warming. Let us reduce our garbage, close down our dump sites and avoid more world catastrophe.