The History of Waste

The study of garbage has given us much insight into civilizations of yesteryear. It has been instrumental in solving crimes. It has even resulted in the fall of an American president. Humans are by their very nature careless with trash. It is not a trait of the 20th century. Garbologists have discovered that people let trash fall where it may. As the timeline of garbage history suggests (below), there has been a problem of trash from man's earliest time. Four basic means of dealing with trash...