getting rid of trash and landfills?

Question

the us alone produces over 236 million tons of trash every year. 72 millions tons of that trash is being recycled. most of the trash in stuffed into landfills. do you have any ideas on how we could stop shipping all our trash to landfills? where can we put our trash? (i know that we can reduce the amount of trash we make, but does anyone have any other ideas?)

Answer 1

Solutions may come from a cement mixture with adhesives. These can be made into structures of all shapes and sizes. As an example pedestrian footbridges over river ways, Flood barriers, landfills between mainland and the tiny islands. They can also be used to cable covers, or tunnel walling for sewage farming.

Answer 2

Excellent question! First of all, all of our trash is not trash. So let's break it down... Look in your own trash, what do you see? Any paper, plastic bottles, soda cans, beer cans, electronics, tin and other metals? Batteries of any type?

Now let's look at what to do with it.....Paper all types, paper plates, newspaper, letters and JUNK Mail can go to one box. Then plastics any and all put in another box. Broken stuff, like elctronics in another, then aliminum cans to another, and metals, tin and whatever to another. What is left in the trash? Probably food, leftovers no one wanted and oranic matter...To a compost bin with that. Now what is left? An empty trash can?

There is a place for everything to go to. You have to locate the recyclers in your area and most will pay for what you have.

Now the stuff that is still useable, the old boombox quit? It won't play CDs or tapes any longer? Join a neat group that is worldwide called Freecycle(tm) Go to www.freecycle.org and find a group clos to you and post your broke stuff there. The main mission of Freecycle is to help keep the landfills clean.

Now take out the empty trash can and wash it.

Just teasing. But if we all worked together on this, we can eventually abolish landfills.

Answer 3

Here's an idea! What's wrong with landfills? When properly designed, constructed and monitored, they are a successfull, affordable means to dispose of our unwanted material. Furthermore, they provide good jobs, both at/for the landfills as well as for supporting companies, and can be important sources of revenue for hosting communities.

Answer 4

That's an interesting question. Maybe we could load trash on a rocket and jettison all our debris into space. It would be a good idea if it was cost effective. Luckily, I'm not the one in charge of the space program huh.