| Everyday activities—down from the mundane to | | | | were existing policies in Athens Greece that required |
| the complicated—play a major part in waste | | | | people to dispose of their waste materials in areas at |
| production. It is estimated that people produce 4.3 | | | | least one mile from city limits. In 1388, the English |
| pounds of daily waste individually, and if taken | | | | Parliament in England banned waste disposal into the |
| together, they can account for the heaps and tons | | | | water systems. And in 1885, the United States built |
| of produced waste materials each year around the | | | | its first incinerator. |
| world. In the United States alone, an estimate of 208 | | | | Waste management methods and procedures have |
| millions tons of solid waste is produced every year. | | | | improved since then, with emphasis on their |
| That excludes the liquid, gaseous, and other forms of | | | | relevance to modernity and quantity of produced |
| waste materials, which are also considerably high in | | | | waste. Incineration, for instance, is still a common |
| amount. As the global population booms, waste | | | | process of waste disposal. With the use of |
| production is expected to increase in speed and | | | | incinerators, waste materials are combusted and are |
| measure, and unless proper waste management is | | | | converted to energy. This waste-to-energy benefit is |
| practiced in households, companies, universities, | | | | proven helpful to many industries, although there |
| industries, and practically everywhere, Earth will | | | | have been environmental and health concerns over |
| eventually turn into one big garbage planet, where | | | | the creation and emission of dangerous pollutants and |
| pollution and waste-induced diseases are widespread. | | | | chemicals during the burning process. |
| Waste management is essentially the systematic | | | | Using landfills is also a common method of waste |
| handling of garbage. It involves the proper way of | | | | disposal. Landfills are basically a big piece of lot where |
| collection, transportation, and disposal of waste | | | | truckloads of waste are gathered and buried. In |
| materials. Waste management has been a significant | | | | some countries, using landfills is the most common |
| issue addressed in the modern and industrialized | | | | way of waste disposal primarily because they are |
| generation largely owing to the fact that more waste | | | | relatively cheap and don’t require intricate |
| materials are produced today than during the early | | | | machineries. Since landfills can potentially attract |
| generations, a critical increase resulting from | | | | vermin and emit dangerous landfill gas, landfills have |
| population explosion and industrial revolution. | | | | to be well-designed and credibly managed. |
| While it seems to be a modern response to waste | | | | Waste management is also targeting to minimize |
| production, waste management is not at all a new | | | | waste, an effort that eventually gave way to the |
| practice. Records from all over the world showed | | | | global campaign to recycle. Recycling means |
| that early people had a way of managing and | | | | reprocessing some or all parts of an item to make a |
| regulating their garbage. One of the common ways | | | | new or completely different product. Scrap metals |
| of waste management before was digging pits to | | | | and papers are two of the most recycled materials |
| contain solid wastes. As the civilization progressed, | | | | today. To date, several people and organizations are |
| waste management practices became more | | | | committed to recycling, whose collaborated efforts |
| regulated. As far back as 500 BC, for instance, there | | | | are contributing to proper waste management. |