The Hidden Life of Garbage by Heather Rogers
Summary and Background on waste disposal: The book by Heather Rogers, which was named an Editor's Choice by the New York Times and the Guardian, analyzes the history and politics of domestic waste in the United States while establishing links between present throwaway culture, modern industrial production, and consumer society. Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution is her most recent book (2010). Humans have always struggled with the issue of how to get rid of waste. Even in the 1800s, trash was, at worst, just dumped into rivers and ditches or thrown into the streets of American cities; in more enlightened communities, it might have been taken to obnoxious open dumps or burned in incinerators, producing dense clouds of smoke. The first true "sanitary landfill," as it was called, was established in Fresno, California, in 1937. Today, more than 60% of the solid waste in the United States ends up in landfills, and the amount of waste seems to keep increasing. Experiments with systematically covering the garbage in dumps started in the 1920s.
Heavy steel garbage trucks grind and creep along neighborhood collection routes every day in the early morning. Each household's waste bin is emptied into the truck's rear compaction unit by a worker. The ejectment is then transported from there to a recycling facility, an incinerator, or most frequently to a "sanitary landfill." Due to the inexpensive expense of burial, land dumping has traditionally been the preferred disposal method in the United States. They are also technologically advanced and are increasingly found in rural areas, which receive a large amount of their garbage from urban centers, which no longer bury their waste. People might start asking challenging questions if they experienced the extent of the destruction, what happened to their garbage, and had to deal with the stench (stink). The Geological Reclamation Operations and Waste Systems (GROWS) landfill are run by (WMI), the largest waste management company in the world, situated outside Morrisville, Pennsylvania. The dumping happens up here, and one of the techniques it employs is cutting-edge. One of the new generation of trash disposal facilities known as "mega-fills" is GROWS. Compared to the conventional waste disposal system, this has significantly improved the environment, but it is not a perfect solution. Since few Americans recycle, the amount of rubbish in the country is rapidly increasing, which is having negative effects on our environment, health, and society. Even while waste disposal techniques have advanced throughout time, they are still simply a short-term fix, therefore getting rid of trash is now a significant issue. The garbage that cannot naturally disintegrate merely sits there and starts to accumulate.