proper disposal of garbage

The most effective way of disposing your garbage is to minimize it. I have been an advocate of using reusable or cloth bags when I shop at supermarkets for four years now. I remember when I first used these, the accumulated plastic bags that I had was minimized by 70%. This is the reason why I hate buying from wet markets. They use so much plastic, and these are the small thin ones that you cannot re-use but throw out immediately. Now, when I forget my reusable bag that's the only time that I will get plastic bags in the house. You can actually count the number of plastic bags that I have and these are less than twenty. Most of my garbage is food waste, not plastic. It's just expensive and I am scared of razor blades that I haven't installed a disposal unit in my kitchen. My brother who lives in the US already suggested this since he knows that I haven't been using plastic bags for shopping anymore.

For biodegradable waste,I think that making a compost pit would be beneficial as it would be good for our soil.As for non-biodegradable wastes,it would be good to recycle it if it's recyclable.If not,find other ways to make it useful.

Over here we don't throw our garbage on the streets or in canals, lakes, etc. We have garbage cans where we throw the garbage and it is picked up twice a week by garbage trucks from front of our house for proper disposal. Also, we also have recycling bins to thhrow the plastic, cans paper, etc for recycling and reuse. The recycling waste is picked up once a week from each street so that it can be taken to the recycling facility and be reused eventually...I think that every citizen needs to be more responsible and dispose of their garbage in a safe way and recycle as much as possible...

Every little thing a person does can help the environment. If many others also feel the same, you can think of organising a little group and getting signatures to get your local garbage disposal centres to clean out these water sources. We should remember that we get drinking water from these kind of water sources and yet, we still throw garbage and dump sewage in them. Plastic can be lethal to the environment as it takes about a million years to decompose (True fact). Waste plastic materials can be given to certain plastic disposal centres which make plastic items out of your garbage! I have personally a whole portion of a lake completely covered with plastic and another one which was so full of sewage weeds covered the surface of the water. So, protect the environment you live in! Hope this helps :)

here in Canada we have separate bins for cardboard, tins, food waste, paper etc. We recycle all these items into new items at the recycling plant.

The best and the easy easy way to dispose of gabage is by recycling the reason being in the gabages of most of the househole 80% of it can be recyled there for creating job through the collector and people involved

I think the best way is to avoid buying and using those things that come in too much packaging. Instead of plastic bags, get some reusable ones. Buy in bulk whenever you can and repackage at home in reusable containers. If we'd quit throwing so much away, we wouldn't have to worry about trash every where and maybe manufacturers would quit using excess packaging. But to answer your question more directly, what would be wrong with picking up trash that we see as we go about our life every day? If every one just picked up what they saw, it would make a big difference.

Well over here it's not. We have a trash can/container for everything we separate our trash. Paper, plastic, glass (different colour), cans, clothes, shoes, batteries, food rests/plants/leaves etc it's all collected separate. It's not allowed to dump anything on the street or to pee outside. Everything is used again.