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To help focus its coverage, TIME invited 33 scientists, administrators and political leaders from ten countries to a three-day conference in Boulder in November. The group included experts in climate change, population, waste disposal and the preservation of species. In addition to explaining the complexities of these interlocking problems...
Prudent waste management would not be possible without the disciplined cooperation of the Japanese people. Before putting out their garbage, they religiously follow such requirements as separating bottles from cans and burnables like paper from nonburnables such as glass and hard plastic. People who want quick disposal of old refrigerators...
How to handle all this waste? Many countries have made a start by locating and cleaning up acres of landfills and lagoons of liquid waste. But few nations have been able to formulate adequate strategies to control the volume of waste produced. Moreover, there are precious few methods of effective...
Few developing countries have regulations to control the output of hazardous waste, and even fewer have the technology or the trained personnel to dispose of it. Foreign contractors in many African or Asian countries still build plants without including costly waste-disposal systems. Where new technology is available, it is...
Even in highly industrialized countries, there are formidable social obstacles to waste management: not-in-my-backyard resistance by many communities to new disposal sites and incinerators is all too common. In the U.S. 80% of solid waste is now dumped into 6,000 landfills. Their number is shrinking fast...