What happens to your garbage once the garbage truck picks it it up? is it sorted through by people or does it?

Question

just get thrown in some landfill?

Answer 1

In the landfill it goes.

Answer 2

It depends on where you live, some towns burn it to generate electricity, usually with the trash from several other nearby places. I believe most places put it in a landfill, which may be capped eventually and left alone, or may have pipes inserted to collect methane (almost the same as natural gas) that forms from decomposition to generate electricity.

Answer 3

here in Italy we recycle. the non recyclable trash is put into some kind of ecological incinerator... although i don't understand how it could be ecological!

Answer 4

Unless it's recyclables, it goes into a landfill of some kind.  Somebody might dig through it there, looking for treasures, but not beforehand.

Answer 5

In San Francisco the garbage is sorted in part and then recycled.