Need help with my writing homework on The Garbage Crisis. Write a 1250 word paper answering;

Need help with my writing homework on The Garbage Crisis. Write a 1250 word paper answering; It wasn't until the middle of the 17th Century that it was discovered that there was money to made out of rubbish and the junk dealer evolved. The 1920s saw a worldwide shift to the reclaiming of city wetlands and the filling of them with rubbish and soil and this form of rubbish disposal is still in vogue today. Over the past 20 years, all the major fast food and drink producers have introduced recyclable plastic bottles and packaging while McDonald's in 1990 discontinued the use of Styrofoam packaging. However, it wasn't until 2000 that laws were enacted to force the recycling of garbage. Today almost every city in the world in fact almost every town has a rubbish tip, a location set aside for the digging of pits that are filled with rubbish and cover with soil to rot and most of those so-called rubbish dumps have recycling plants located nearby.

Garbage is everywhere and it multiplies in our homes, businesses, and factories at alarming rates. It chokes up our waterways and often kills our wildlife. In America alone the average waste produced by each person is 726kg per year, multiply that a population of 307 million, and the mind boggles at the magnitude of the waste problem. Americans alone could circle the equator 300 times with just the disposable eating utensils they have thrown away and each and every American office worker throws away 500 disposable cups a year. Household waste is where the biggest portion of rubbish is produced with food scraps being the main ingredient and that is also the easiest to dispose of and most of it quickly rots away as compost. Scrap metal and white goods such as old fridges and washing machines are also easily disposed of and recycled. Hazardous wastes such as paints and oils are not so easily discarded along with old TVs and computers and of course asbestos is one of the most dangerous. The huge amount of rubbish produced by fast food outlets is astronomical with tons of plastic, paper, and foam they use every day and there still is little they are doing to resolve the problem with McDonald's causing the most concern.” McDonald's Litter Accounts For Almost a Third Of All Fast Food Rubbish Dropped In The UK.”(Newslite, 2009). Green Waste is another easily disposed of waste and will also break down quickly into compost and glass is recycled. Greywater such as washing water and toilet waste is now being managed effectively by most councils.