Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: trash cemetery

This "trash cemetery" attempts to explain the harm done by litter, and by solid waste in general, due to slow decomposition rates, showing in this case the decomposition rates of plastic bags, milk cartons, and tin cans. Again, I'm skeptical of how realistic this is, as it's routine for archeologists to find all of these things well over 100 years after they're discarded (although maybe not so often in the case of anything plastic just yet). "Hrbitov Odpadku" means "trash cemetery" or "garbage cemetery."

This "trash cemetery" attempts to explain the harm done by litter, and by solid waste in general, due to slow decomposition rates, showing in this case the decomposition rates of radioactive waste (probably they mean depleted uranium), glass, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, plastic bags, and milk cartons. Again, I'm skeptical of how realistic this is, especially with respect to aluminum cans and plastics. It is striking, however, how radioactive waste is thought to last longer than any of the other forms of waste, although it represents a tiny fraction of solid waste in the world.

This "trash cemetery" attempts to explain the harm done by litter, and by solid waste in general, due to slow decomposition rates, showing in this case the decomposition rates of cigarette filters, gum, orange peels, paper, and apple cores. I'm actually skeptical that a cigarette would degrade in only 10 years, but it's possible, as I'm not an environmental scientist. Gum can vary, too, of course, as I've found gum that was clearly decades old (by circumstantial evidence).