It is unwanted materials and objects that people have thrown away. It is often also called trash, garbage, rubbish, or junk. It can be solid, liquid, or gas, or it can be waste heat.
Processing
Processing has many definitions, however, the best general definition to apply to waste, refuse or garbage is:
- to convert into marketable form by a special series of steps
Americans generate trash (click here) at a rate of four pounds per day, per person. This translates to staggering 600,000 tons per day and 210 million tons per year, which is almost twice as much per person as most other countries. So what happens to all that trash? One of three things:
- It’s landfilled
- It’s recycled
- It’s composted
The next time you throw something away, consider where it’s going and how long it will be there. Remember, if you can recycle or reuse, you’re not just saving materials, you’re saving the environment and valuable landfill space.
Recycle
Recycling, a form of environmental conscience, is about the future. Dumping into a landfill or burning in an incinerator is about the past. Why do Americans worry about the future and not just here and now?
Environmental conscience is about the future. Is here and now thinking required for extremist politics that cheat the future? Why is it so easy for American politicians to say, "...but, you don't know that..." as if the future is not conceivable?
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Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. ... Recycling can prevent the waste of potentially useful materials and reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, thereby reducing: energy usage, air pollution (from incineration), and water pollution (from landfilling).
Disposal
Removing and destroying or storing damaged, used or other unwanted domestic, agricultural or industrial products and substances. Disposal includes burning, burial at landfill sites or at sea, and recycling.
Recycle
Recycling, a form of environmental conscience, is about the future. Dumping into a landfill or burning in an incinerator is about the past. Why do Americans worry about the future and not just here and now?
Environmental conscience is about the future. Is here and now thinking required for extremist politics that cheat the future? Why is it so easy for American politicians to say, "...but, you don't know that..." as if the future is not conceivable?
Ideas that can change lives. (click here) Renowned inventors, scientists and futurologists describe the big idea that they want to solve and how it can transform the world.
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. ... Recycling can prevent the waste of potentially useful materials and reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, thereby reducing: energy usage, air pollution (from incineration), and water pollution (from landfilling).
Disposal
Removing and destroying or storing damaged, used or other unwanted domestic, agricultural or industrial products and substances. Disposal includes burning, burial at landfill sites or at sea, and recycling.
