A partial answer to the garbage problem is recycling. This is due tomorrow. In addition to saving landfill space, recycling also saves energy. It is usually less expensive to recycle rather than to dump in a landfill. Recycling creates less pollution than does production from raw materials.
Recycling conserves natural resources.
For example, if recycled paper was used just to make Sunday newspapers in America, it would save 500,000 trees each Sunday. While the question of degradability is important for all solid waste, it is most controversial for plastics. Plastics are hydrocarbon products made from crude oil. In the process called reforming, hydrocarbons are converted into plastics. Plastic sutures, the cord-like plastics used as stitches after surgery, can be made to degrade in about a week.