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Garbage in a 'Clean City' garbage can in Volzhskiy, Volgograd Oblast, Russia.
Collected garbage at Attero, Wijster, the Netherlands.
Litter dumped in a wetland area in the United States, among water lilies and marsh plants.

Garbage, trash, rubbish, or refuse is waste material that is discarded by humans, usually due to a perceived lack of utility. The term generally does not encompass bodily waste products, purely liquid or gaseous wastes, or toxic waste products. Garbage is commonly sorted and classified into kinds of material suitable for specific kinds of disposal.

Terminology

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Treatment

In urban areas, garbage of all kinds is collected and treated as municipal solid waste; garbage that is discarded in ways that cause it to end up in the environment, rather than in facilities designed to receive garbage, is considered litter. Litter is a form of garbage, and municipal solid waste that is improperly disposed of, and which therefore enters the environment, is treated as litter. Notably, however, only a small fraction of garbage that is generated becomes litter, with the vast majority being disposed of in ways intended to secure it from entering the environment.

History

Man has been creating garbage throughout history, beginning with bone fragments left over from using animal parts and stone fragments discarded from toolmaking. The degree to which groups of early humans began engaging in agriculture can be estimated by examining the type and quality of animal bones in their garbage. Garbage from prehistoric or pre-civilization humans was often collected into mounds called middens, which might contain things such as "a mix of discarded food, charcoal, shell tools, and broken pottery".

See also

References

  1. Susan Strasser, Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (2014), p. 6-7.
  2. Carl A. Zimring, William L. Rathje, eds., Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage (2012), p. 657.
  3. William L. Rathje, Cullen Murphy, Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage (2001), p. 9.
  4. ^ Simon Davis, "By their garbage shall they be known", New Scientist (November 17, 1983), p. 506-515.
  5. Sid Perkins (March 22, 2011). "Prehistoric Garbage Piles May Have Created 'Tree Islands'". sciencemag.org.
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