This website explains how landfill works in terms of breaking down as well as the layout of a landfill.
When speaking to florists they seemed fairly unconcerned about putting their organic waste in with their plastic as it would "break down anyway" however, what this diagram and article explains is that the nutrients from organic waste does not reach the soil in landfills. Alongside this, the form of decomposition which occurs in landfills is anaerobic and gives off harmful methane gas.
Approximately half of the contents sent to the landfill from Auckland households is organic, decomposable waste.
https://compostcollective.org.nz/#!
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