The State of Garbage in The World: Where Does It Go?
by William Achnitz III on Apr 27, 2015 | Views: 1045 | Score: 4
| Landfills | Recycling/Composting | Incineration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 0 | 66 | 34 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 60 | 39 |
| Sweden | 2 | 49 | 49 |
| Belgium | 4 | 60 | 36 |
| Denmark | 4 | 48 | 48 |
| France | 32 | 34 | 34 |
| Italy | 45 | 43 | 12 |
| United Kingdom | 48 | 40 | 11 |
| Spain | 52 | 39 | 9 |
| United States | 69 | 24 | 7 |
| Poland | 78 | 21 | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 100 | 0 | 0 |
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Nearly 70% of the waste produced in the United States is landfilled. As Edward Humes writes in his book Garbology, a landfill, by definition, will someday be full, and so all it does is enable the continued creation of trash, rather than force a reconsideration of waste. What policies or actions can be taken to become more like some of our western European counterparts?