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these disposal options by cutting down on the amount of trash requiring disposal in the first place.
EPA favors an integrated solid waste management strategy that includes four parts: (1) reducing the amount of solid waste generated: (2) recycling as much refuse as possible; (3) incinerating some garbage with appropriate environmental controls and usually with energy recovery; (4) continuing safe landfilling practices.
While recycling is only one piece of the puzzle, it is also the area where individual households and businesses can be of greatest help in dealing with our garbage problem. In the past the U.S. hhs declared “wars” on a number of social problems. Today we need to declare a war on refuse, and one way to jump start this effort is to increase dramatically our recycling efforts. That is why the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting a national four-year goal of reducing by 25 percent the amount of municipal solid waste bound for disposal.
For those who think this goal isn’t very ambitious, consider that we are currently recycling only about 10 percent of refuse nationwide. Our efforts vary considerably acording to types of waste. For example, about half of all aluminum cans, one-third of our newspapers, and about 10 percent of glass bottles are currently recycled.
But we presently recycle only about one percent of all plastic and very few rubber products, such as tires. A few innovators are collecting yard and food wastes for composting, but these efforts are minimal.
Clearly in many areas we can do much better.
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