How is garbage handled today?
Almost every society in the world struggles with the issue of efficient and safe waste management practices. Everywhere, the most common practice of waste processing has always been uncontrolled open dumping, a method which requires no investment and has very little operational costs. However such uncontrolled dumping leads to unhealthy impacts on the surrounding environment not to mention the ugly scenes of garbage heaps it creates. Another processing technique used in cities is incineration or for that matter in the rural areas and often in cities is open burning. Incinerating or open burnings are by far the most hazardous among the many inefficient waste management practices. Valuable resources get needlessly burnt and do not provide any long-term solution to the solid waste crises that still remains. In fact incineration further worsens the crisis because resources like glass for instance, that may be reused are also burnt with all the other tonnage of waste. Such reusable resource
