Where does garbage go?
• There are two types of MSW Disposal: • Solid Waste Landfills – includes municipal solid waste, industrial waste, construction and demolition debris, and bioreactors. • Solid Waste Combustion/Incineration – waste volume is reduced in a controlled burning process called combustion or incineration. • • Where is the environmental problem then? • According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , many of the country's landfills have been closed for one or both of these two reasons: • They were full. • They were contaminating groundwater. • Incineration may release toxins into the air and create ash that requires disposal in hazardous-waste landfills, and that takes us back to our starting point: Cities are running out of places to put their trash . • • International: Our wastefulness affects the well-being of people in other parts of the world. • Intergenerational: Our activities affect future generations in two main ways: • By creating contamination problems that future generat
