The Impact of Municipal Solid Waste on the Environment
"We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it"(Adler).
We are living in a consumist - throwaway society (see Figure 1815) where there is little awareness about the impact of Municipal Solid Waste, "MSWmore commonly known as trash or garbageconsists of everyday items such as paper and paperboard (35.7%), yard waste (12.2%), food wastes (11.4%), plastics (11.1%), metals (7.9%), rubber, leather, and textiles (7.1%), wood (5.7%), glass (5.5%)" as shown in Figure 18-2 (United States Environmental Protection Agency, "Municipal"), on the environment. New York City is one of the largest cities that leads the MSW production in the USA by exporting 11,000 tons per day of MSW to other states, at an average cost of $64 a ton (Wright 495). Therefore, we are facing a great challenge by trying to reduce the impact of garbage on the......
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