How do other countries dispose of their trash?

Question

describe the amounts of trash thrown away and the methods used to dispose of the solid waste.

Answer 1

that girl is WRONG

most country's burn their trash in remote areas

Mexico does that actually

Answer 2

they do it the same everywhere.

Answer 3

In most places they just drop it and walk away. Many countries are literally drowning in their own trash.

Check out pictures of India: http://exposedplanet.com/index.php?showi...

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Tonnes...

Would you give trash to your child as a toy??  http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/01/...

China imports more trash in addition to the local variety. http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4986

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-5-6/5497...

China also dumps in the ocean: http://thirstyghosts2.blogspot.com/2007/...

Most of the world is struggling with trash disposal even the United States. Just because we send it to dump sites doesn't mean it's gone but there is hope as one company is ramping up to mine old trash piles to reclaim aluminum, glass and newspaper.  http://www.enviroalternatives.com/landfi...

Answer 4

Different countries dispose of their rubbish in different ways. Americans and Australians, with lots of land at their disposal, like to dump it. More crowded places, such as Singapore and Taiwan, and ones with great reverence for their landscape, such as Switzerland, tend to burn it. Germans, says Denis Gasquet of Veolia, have a soft spot for industrial schemes that recycle waste or generate energy from it. Even within globalised pressure groups, such as Greenpeace, he observes, activists in one country cannot agree with their counterparts in another about how waste should be processed.

God proposes, man disposesVeolia's report unearths some oddities. Residents of cities in China proper throw out roughly one-quarter more than the citizens of Hong Kong do, and three-quarters more than the average Taiwanese. Japan seems to produce only a fraction of the quantities of hazardous waste that Europe and America churn out―perhaps because Japanese officials class fewer things as hazardous, speculates Philippe Chalmin, the author of the report.

On the whole, this variety is good. It is likely to nurture a wide range of technologies for waste disposal, and so provide more options for everyone. It reflects the fact that countries with different geographies and histories will have different environmental priorities.

But if garbage disposal is as much a matter of cultural norms as of technology or regulation or economics, might the same be said of other fraught environmental issues? Green activists tend to speak about their favoured policies as if these were dictated by science alone. Budgets might come into the calculation, but the implication is still that reasonable people would all do the same thing, given enough time and money. In the case of trash, at least, that is a load of rubbish.