Garbage

All the garbage we use is unreal

More than half the cities in the United States exhausted their current landfills in 1990. Already, rising mountains of trash overwhelm the land and breed germs and disease.

Staten Island Landfill - Public Domain Image

City dumps, town dumps, and thousands of garbage dumping sites have been closed for pollution problems.

Like cemeteries, dumping sites keep growing and growing. The more we buy and utilize, the more trash we accumulate. The more trash we accumulate, the more dumping ground we need.

There are over 8 billion people on our planet; at least three billion of us have trash to dump on a regular basis. The other five billion would possibly be children and elderly, who generate trash via their everyday needs. 

For a long time, America took the cheaper option in waste disposal. The country dumps 90% of its rubbish landfill sites or simply bury it.

Landfill sites are overfilled; a third of them have been closing since 1980. More than half of the cities on the east coast ran out of dumping space by 1990. 14 sites in New York have closed in the past 10 years. All of Seattle's sites are full, and more land has been sought out for dumping purposes.

Floating garbage contaminating the environment

No one really knows how much plastic is fouling oceans, rivers, and lakes. A report estimates that up to 350 million pounds of packaging and fishing gear are lost or dumped each year by sailors and fishermen. Millions more pounds originate from individuals, private boats, and factories.  

Plastic is one of the most damaging products ever manufactured. There's no suitable place to dispose of plastic because it isn't biodegradable. A plastic container thrown from a moving vehicle will likely be there 10 years later.