The Millenium Development Goals, agreed to by every member country of the United Nations in 2000, call for the worldwide eradication of poverty and hunger, universal education, gender equality and huge improvements in health by 2015: two years ago!!
Can we do this without making the planet warmer?
Let's think big and imagine how we can confront the climate crisis in a way that is realistic about the other major problems that we face as a planet and as a species on it.
Clean Development >
Landfills
Landfills are a huge issue this nation is facing concerning soil and air quality deterioration around those areas. In most cases, the soil the landfills are on are near permanently unusable. Studies showed that in California alone, nearly 40 million tons of waste was thrown in a landfill in 2018, 99% of it still in California and the other 1% exported out of the country. A way to mitigate this is to recycle anything recyclable, compost as much as you can and to find a way to reuse any materials that aren't damaged or lightly used as to mitigate the amount of waste going to our landfills.
I completely agree with your ideas of recycling, composting, and reusing. I would also like to add the idea of using waste as an energy source I believe I heard about that somewhere and it is supposed to be a lot better for the environment.
I agree that landfills are horrible answers to our trash problem. I think as well as introducing more recycling and composting into our world, we also need to find a way to diminish the creation of that trash in the first place. For example, creating better food packaging and item packaging to be more sustainable. Maybe created out of something compostable like rice paper or vegetable starches.