The water and soil should be tested for contamination after the landfill is put in. If we kept the toxic chemicals in Vermont this could raise pollution. The best solution is to cut down greatly on toxic wastes. New landfills would destroy forest habitats. Yet over time pollution could destroy forests all together.
Chemicals can hurt Vermont's trees.
Already the trees are dying do to diseases, such as Dutch elm disease and beech bark disease. Trees are also dying of pollution and clear cutting. Some trees end up in our living rooms. Trees take our carbon dioxide and make it into oxygen. If there are no trees, then humans wouldn't be alive.