Managing solid waste is crucial to minimize environmental impacts. Let's explore the different strategies to keep Earth cleaner!

• Altering Human Activity
• What does this mean? Getting people to change their daily habits!
• Examples:
  • Be a smart consumer: Think about the packaging when you shop. Do you need that extra plastic bag? 🛍️
  • Use "bags for life": These are bags you can use again and again instead of the single-use plastic ones. Bonus: They’re stylish too! 😎
  • Govt. Role: Taxes! Just like how some countries added taxes on plastic bags, which led to fewer people using them.
  • Why is this cool? Because we have the power to change the world with our choices!
  • Real-World Example: Remember when everyone was buying reusable metal straws to save the turtles? That's the spirit! 🐢
• Controlling the Release of Pollutants
  • What's the deal? Reduce, reuse, recycle!
  • Examples:
  • Encouraging recycling and composting.
  • Repurposing items: like turning old car tires into slope stabilizers.
  • Upcycling: Using old plastic bottles as cute plant pots!
  • Real-World Example: Ever seen a garden where old boots are used as planters? That's controlling pollutant release in style!
• Reclaiming Landfills and Energy Recovery
  • Get this: We can get energy from trash! 🗑️➡️🔥
  • How? Use waste to produce methane (a.k.a. natural gas) and reduce landfills.
  • Extreme clean-up: This includes removing plastics from beaches or oceans (ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? That needs some cleaning!)
  • Real-World Example: Some cities collect gas from landfills and use it to power homes. Literal trash to treasure!