Where does all of our garbage really go?

Answer 1

3 places: landfill, incinerators, and recycling plants.

A landfill is basically a giant plastic-lined dent in the ground where trash is taken to decompose. That's the most common place where our trash goes. It's not the best method, but it is the most common.

In some countries, trash is taken to an incinerator, where the trash is burned into ashes. The problem with that is that too many toxins are released into the air.

Recycling plants are where paper, certain plastics, glass, and aluminum are taken and turned into products that we could re-use. More expensive, but the best alternative.

Hope I helped!

Answer 2

Most of our garbage goes to a sanitary landfill. Despite efforts to recycle, too much is just thrown out. Most garbage could be burned to generate electricity . If it is burned at 2500 degrees F it does not create air pollution. The 10% remaining needs to be buried in a secure landfill because with the reduction in volume, the heavy metals that did not burn are more concentrated.
Reduce, Reuse, recycle and help the fuel shortage by voting in incineration of garbage to generate energy.(resource recovery)

Answer 3

Usually a landfill or a dump. It pretty much ends up sitting somewhere forever. I pass a landfill on the way to my university from home and you can see the garbage just piled up in huge hills next to the highway.

Answer 4

Landfills Unfortuanatley

Answer 5

A landfill or dump mostly. Some gets recycled and reprocessed. Some gets burned. The bad thing about a landfill is once it is filled, then big machines cover it over. Now, decompation starts and what was in the landfill filters down further now becomes what is in your drinking water.

Answer 6

simply, "to the garbage".

it is sitting in thousand of landfill dumps across the country, just rotting and decomposing, except crap like disposable diapers which will take about 500 to break down and decay. they are a scam from the big companies and are taking up more of our landfill space than just about anything else. Pampers/Huggies/etc ALL CRAP !!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

Most of it gets dumped in big holes in the ground, then when the pile is too big it gets covered with earth. Then people build houses on top and then the rising methane builds up and the houses explode. Well, not always.

A little of the trash gets recycled and some gets burned.

Answer 8

Good question. If it's biodegradeable, it goes back to the Earth. If it's a tire or any product that comes from petroleum oil, it doesn't go anywhere.

Answer 9

it either goes into an insinerator and burned or its piled up until it is a huge mound and covered with dirt... most of the time they will make a ski hill on old land fills their is a few around where i live.

Answer 10

well run, well designed landfills with liners and gas collection systems...waiting for us to reclaim and reuse the plastics, glass and metals in the future and providing methane for power now. or incinerators for power.