The Problem of Garbage Disposal and Its Possible Solutions

Heather Roger claims our current garbage disposal methods are short term and etiquette. Rogers’s position is clear that we need to minimize the use of landfills and create better means to discard trash. In supporting Rogers’s environment views I think that we need to create a more economic and environmental friendly garbage disposal system. Heather Rogers and Lars Eighner both acknowledge the issue with society’s throwaway mentality. Eighner proves that we throw away perfectly working stuff, having survived off others discarded materials. Eighner argues against excessive waste we create but does not have any prospected solutions. Whereas Rogers acknowledges the obvious need to minimize our consumption of waste but argues the need

This is a crucial topic concerning the town of Arkansas City. For example, all waste mainly go to the Ark City landfill which is where all of the city trash is disposed along with at the current rate of waste the landfill has a useful life of fifty years (Broce). Through Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, the trash people, throw away can be reduced. Roughly about half of the garbage that people throw away in their trash cans can be recycling. Then to minimize waste even more in the future a town composed heap can be created in the near future from the food thrown away. Besides, the future of the city's recycling can grow much more. According to Broce, he hopes that someday in the future there will be voluntary curbside recycling. Which is very much similar to modern day trash pickup (Broce). It is always good to have a plan for the future. The idea of curbside recycling in the future is not only a great idea but also a more helpful idea for the people recycling. The more people that start recycling, the sooner this plan will be put into effect. As stated before the three R's are very important in Arkansas City and to the public works director Mr. Broce not to mention that with more time, there will be significant improvements in people's everyday environments like

Americans have yet to face the unnerving reality of the fact that “in 2008 only 7.1% of the 30.05 million tons of plastic waste in America was recycled” (Linn). This low percentage is shocking, outrageous, and should terrify the American public, but this number can change. Recycling is not just a feel good experience; it is a way to help save energy, space, and money. However, with the enormous amount of trash being thrown out each year, landfills are increasing in size creating numerous issues. The staggering amount of waste increases greenhouse gases, contributing to global warming and building up dangerous toxins that sink underground into our soil and water, overflows into wildlife habitats and oceans, and costs a large amount of money to remove. By fining residents who incorrectly dispose of recyclable goods, implementing recycling as a requirement in educational institutions and other business and residential settings, categorizing the

Man-made garbage has left lasting negative impacts on the world around us. Most people have seen some kind of PSA about recycling. However, many people don’t think about how trash has affected out economy negatively as well. Throughout the course of only a single day in the United States, nearly 5 pounds of garbage are produced by an individual, which is the highest average among every other country on Earth. Less than 2 pounds of the garbage produced each day is recycled. These numbers add up to 250 million tons of garbage produced by Americans in one year, with only 80 million tons ending up recycled. These numbers are staggering and something needs to be done to combat it. The solution that I am proposing is the enforcement of mandatory recycling and even stricter laws against littering. The advantages of mandatory recycling have many different forms. It would save natural resources as well as further preserve the planet for our descendants. Even if one doesn’t care about the environment, the economic benefits cannot be ignored. The United States’ economy would be strengthened and the average household would save money on goods.

In 2010, Americans produced about 250 million tons of garbage and only 34 percent was recycled. Littering may be small, but when it accumulates it can become a serious issue, which nowadays unfortunately already exists. There’s numerous amounts of negative impacts caused by this matter that not everyone is aware of. These ramifications not only impact the people itself, but animals and environments as well. In addition, this incident has enough power to contribute to other pollution types that exist as well. For example: an article by the Chicago Tribune from 2011, called “Chicago River cleanup required”, states that because of all the waste in the waterways, approximately $72 million will be needed to disinfect these waterways. As any bad

The United States has tried to solve the garbage problems for a long time. Ted Steinberg says “at first [the garbage wars] may have seemed like a simple problem, nothing that could not be solved by a fleet of tractor-trailers carrying garbage to open spaces further south and west” when New York City has faced the lack of the room for trash in the 1990s in the chapter 14 of his book Down to Earth (225). Unfortunately, the garbage has kept causing problems since around the 1940s, the postwar period. It is uneasy to solve this serious problem because several factors, such as consumerism and some relationships on the Earth, are related to each other and make the issue complicated.

“Since the beginning of time people have needed to find a way of disposing of their trash.”(Bassis, Luke)Proper garbage disposal is important to ensure everyone's safety from possible health hazards. The improper waste disposal of garbage is a major

The process of waste management has change significantly over the last couple of years. For instance, in the early 1990’s, there were facilities caleed piggeries, that were pigs were fed fresh and cook garbage in which experts estimated that seventy-five pigs were able to consume about one ton of refuse per day. This being a highly effective and efficient, but clearly a public health issues which sent concern opinions throughout the communities. By the 1910, throughout the nations majority of the people in society had some form of solid waste collection going on in their area. This type of collection of waste was conducted by men with horse drawn wagons or carts and later on the inventions of vehicles (automobiles) the garbage truck was

On average, Americans generate about 4 pounds of trash per person per day. (3) As Americans, we produce twice the amount of garbage than other countries and three times as much as we did in the past. Over half of the amount of trash we produce gets sent to landfills. The people who create the most trash are those that live in cities and wealthy individuals. When you live in a city, you consume more packaged goods and when you become more wealthy, you consume more products overall. (2) Unless we reduce the amount of trash we produce or find other ways to get

Nowadays, when people have something good, they will want something better after. For example, for many years ago, the telephones were big, had to connect with a cable, and people couldn't move their phones anywhere. However, the telephones of today are small and wireless, so people can bring to anywhere. Due to people's increasing demands, the industrialization and modernization increase. Moreover, many products are created with low prices to suit all kinds of people. As the result, when the products are consumed more, waste management increases more. However, following that is some consequences that we cannot disregard such as water and air pollution. One of the common causes is the act of human littering or human activities. The U.S. has

Urbanization is considered to be the main reason for increase in the amount of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). Health of urban residents is important thus adequate management of MSW is essential. Enormous amount of new waste is generated every day. The unmanageable MSW poses various environmental problems which includes nuisance from odour, unhygienic conditions and ground water pollution etc. This becomes a challenging issue since different location have different overflow of waste. Thus analysis of data helps in decision making. It also helps in understanding and predicting the behaviour of people to make better management decisions. . Data is the key for knowing what is being thrown away. Analysis of data is done by understanding

The average resident produces seven and a half pounds of garbage every day that is buried down in landfills and litters lands costing a great amount of money. Nowadays, people face no more critical trouble than the need to save the weakening environment, mainly in urban areas, where solid wastes are uselessly dumped. It has been observed that cities have no controlled structure for garbage disposal. Each year, millions of dollars are spent picking up litter and more is thrown away in valuable materials that could be recycled. As humanity develops new technology and equipment, the level of waste increases every day. Due to the fact that there is a huge problem with garbage disposal, government representatives must contribute to resolving

The United States generates more solid waste each year than any than any other nation. The total cost of disposing of this waste has reached nearly $75 billion annually. Only 17% of the municipal solid waste is recycled in the United States, compared with 40% in Japan and up to 60% in some Western European countries (Oskamp et al., 1995). America's landfill system for disposing of this waste is quickly reaching its limits, and managing this waste is becoming increasingly costly and problematic. There are two solutions available for this problem: reduce the amount of waste originally generated or to increase recycling (Porter et al., 1995). In focusing on the second solution to this problem, I have

This project is set up in Sri Lanka which is an island nation and in the Indian Ocean located in the southern part of the Indian subcontinent. The project mainly focuses on Colombo where the commercial capital of Sri Lanka is. According to the “Global Challenges in Engineering” (Baillie & Armstrong, 2016), the population of Colombo was 5.36 million in 2002. Benefit from the open market policy published by new government, the economic condition was improved significantly. The population of Colombo increased dramatically, too. But at the same time, large number of lower class people in Colombo and increasing waste disposal are the problems that Colombo Municipal Council has to face with. Waste collectors are such a group of people who are identified as lower class and taking main part jobs of waste recycling in Colombo because of poor regulation and supervision of waste disposal and waste recycling system. Our project aims to better the economic and social welfare of waste collectors of Colombo through better waste management, or in other words, to improve the living standard and efficiency of the waste collectors in the informal waste sector. The ideal result of this project is to provide them with better living standards, higher income levels, a more efficient method of recycling waste, and finally to reduce the waste by our design and teamwork

One of the effective means to at least lessen the occurrence of our present garbage disposal problem is through the use of methods that are non-toxic, less expensive, less-harmful, and yet equally effective. This project aims to provide for a natural and effective way of disposing garbage.