Understanding Where Garbage Goes

Earth911
By Gemma AlexanderOct 15, 2019, 5:00 am164 pts
We call it many things: garbage, trash, rubbish, waste. The recycling industry calls it “municipal solid waste,” or MSW. All these words mean “things we throw away.” For a few decades, Americans really could just throw away whatever they didn’t want without ever thinking about it again. But as we are…

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