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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (330816)9/16/2020 3:39:27 PM
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Archeologists learn a lot about ancient civilizations by studying their middens, which you and I call solid waste dumps. The lasting material is always ceramic, glass and bone.

Animals leave their solid waste where it occurs, but humans have always placed their solid waste in a special location, regardless of whether they live on a farm, village or city.
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Prior to the 1950s, backyard incinerators were the primary method of reducing solid waste and the trash collector was appropriately called the ash collector.

Clean air regulations have curbed this ancient and traditional method of dealing with solid waste both on farms, villages and cities.

The modern alternative is the sort of massive trash-burning facility at Crows Landing on the I-5 just south of Patterson which generates 22 MW of electricity as if burns 800 tons of solid waste daily. - sacbee.com This is widely used in Scandinavia to generate power and eliminate trash in a climate where trash disposal is complicated by snow and ice. It's a complicated technology to be able to decompose everything completely with heat without releasing toxins in the trash or toxins created by the decomposition process.
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"Trash" can minimized but it will always be created by agricultural, manufacturing, and living processes. We all know some people are like animals and leave their trash where they generate it, but as a society we have to have systems in place to do better.
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