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 ====== Air ======
-**Locals- Air- CH₄ and CO₂- landfill gas- La Doña Juana Landfill**
+**Locals - Air - CH₄ & CO₂ - landfill gas - solid waste & pollutant - La Doña Juana Landfill**
-The [[09|La Doña Juana Landfill]] is emitting high levels of CH₄, making a significant contribution to global warming.
+The [[09|La Doña Juana Landfill]] is emitting high levels of CH₄, having a significant impact on global warming (Greenpeace Colombia, 2024).
-Waste within landfills gradually decomposes as it accumulates. In the absence of proper management, the physical and chemical conditions within landfills promote anaerobic decomposition, leading to CH₄ emissions. The release of methane into the [[01|air]] accelerates the process of climate change. CH₄ released during the decomposition of [[27|solid waste]] sector currently accounts for over 20 percent of Colombia's total CH₄ emissions.
+Waste within landfills gradually decomposes as it accumulates. In the absence of proper management, the physical and chemical conditions in landfills promote anaerobic decomposition, leading to CH₄ emissions. The release of methane into the [[01|air]] accelerates the process of climate change (De et al., 2024). CH₄ released during the decomposition of [[27|solid waste]] sector currently accounts for over 20 per cent of Colombia's total CH₄ emissions (CATF, 2024).
-The environmental risks of landfills extend beyond CH₄ emissions. As waste decomposes, landfills also emit CO₂, which is another greenhouse gas contributing significantly to climate change as CH₄.
+The environmental risks of landfills extend beyond CH₄ emissions. As waste decomposes, landfills also emit CO₂, which is another greenhouse gas contributing significantly to climate change as CH₄ (De et al., 2024).
-Policies frequently locate such pollution sources in impoverished communities such as Usme and Ciudad Bolívar, where [[14|locals]] are unfortunate enough to live near the [[09|La Doña Juana Landfill]].
+Policies frequently locate such [[19|pollution]] sources in impoverished communities such as Usme and Ciudad Bolívar, where [[14|locals]] are unfortunate enough to live near the [[09|La Doña Juana Landfill]] (Camargo, 2019).
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-**Air-CH₄**
+**Air - CH₄**
 CH₄ is a greenhouse gas whose global warming potential is 80 times than that of CO₂ over the first 20 years after release. CH₄ itself does not typically pose a direct health hazard, but at high concentrations it may limit O₂ availability.
-Furthermore, as a precursor, CH₄ is a reactive gas that promotes the formation of tropospheric ozone, which is a hazardous atmospheric pollutant with potentially lethal effects on human health and public wellbeing.
+Furthermore, as a precursor, CH₄ is a reactive gas that promotes the formation of tropospheric ozone, which is a hazardous atmospheric [[19|pollutant]] with potentially lethal effects on human health and public wellbeing (De et al., 2024).
 __Bibliography:__
-Clean Air Task Force. (n.d.). Colombian Waste Sector Methane Analysis. [online] Available at: https://www.catf.us/resource/colombian-waste-sector-methane-analysis/.
+CATF (2024). Colombian Waste Sector Methane Analysis. [online] Clean Air Task Force. Available at: https://www.catf.us/resource/colombian-waste-sector-methane-analysis/.
-Greenpeace Colombia. (2025). Greenpeace Colombia. [online] Available at: https://www.greenpeace.org/colombia/noticia/campanas/contaminacion/relleno-sanitario-dona-juana-una-bomba-de-tiempo-para-las-comunidades-y-el-ambiente/ [Accessed 2 Dec. 2025].
-De, E., Generación, L., Captura, Y., Emisiones, D., Metano, D., Relleno, S., De Doña, J. and Bogotá, C. (n.d.). Available at: https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-colombia-stateless/2024/09/aa3dab3b-reportemetano-colombia.pdf.
+Greenpeace Colombia. (2024). Greenpeace Colombia. [online] Available at: https://www.greenpeace.org/colombia/noticia/campanas/contaminacion/relleno-sanitario-dona-juana-una-bomba-de-tiempo-para-las-comunidades-y-el-ambiente/ [Accessed 2 Dec. 2025].
+De, E., Generación, L., Captura, Y., Emisiones, D., Metano, D., Relleno, S., De Doña, J. and Bogotá, C. (2024). Available at: https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-colombia-stateless/2024/09/aa3dab3b-reportemetano-colombia.pdf.
+Camargo, M. (2019). Biblat. Historia crítica (Bogotá), [online] (74). Available at: https://biblat.unam.mx/es/revista/historia-critica-bogota/articulo/el-relleno-sanitario-dona-juana-en-bogota-la-produccion-politica-de-un-paisaje-toxico-1988-2019 [Accessed 2 Dec. 2025].