Unit 4 Individual Project: What Is Municipal Solid Waste?

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SCI201 Unit 4 Individual Project
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What is municipal solid waste (MSW)? Well, MSW is trash that consists of everyday things that we throw away. These come from Schools, hospitals, homes, and other businesses. Prior to Industrialization waste was dealt with by dumping it in a landfill people would dig holes and cover the garbage with dirt. Others would just dump their garbage in a designated area away from the city or designate someone to take the garbage to that land fill. This process as not very safe because back then nobody understood how diseases worked so animals that rummaged through that landfill ended up causing outbreaks of the plague.

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An open dump is piles of garbage that have been gathers at a specific location where they shouldn’t be. Open dumps are illegal and have a negative impact on our environment. Dumps such as this one tends to invite wild animals causing vector-borne diseases. So, this is illegal and a clear danger to public health. …show more content…

There have been known issues in the past from landfills such as leachate and methane. Leachate is what happens when you have all this waste in one locations it’s going to be the liquid runoff from the waste. As for the methane that’s the gas that is created when the waste decomposes. Leachate should be handled with caution since if it flows freely it could end up in groundwater. Methane gasses should be prevented at all costs as well because it is known to be the foremost contributor to global

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