Shooting garbage into space really isn't a very cost effective way of disposing of it. Besides landfills actually do have a useful function beyond being just a place to put garbage. As the garbage in the landfills breaks down it produces methane that is use as fuel, usually to fuel the waste disposal plant but the stuff they don't use is sold off.
As for recycling from a cost effective point of view the only substance really worth recycling is aluminum since it costs less to recycle then to mine more.
First of all, littering will only matter if the object in concern is not going to eventually break down, and as I read from someone earlier in this topic, littering is just something to scare you into not throwing your cup out the window because it's "bad" for the environment. That's a load of bull for everything but something like a computer. Throw an apple out the window: Fertilize the ground+feed a worm or 10. Just don't be stupid and throw something random out the window or dump your 200 soda cans in the middle of the park. If anyone needs to be told this, they need some help.
First of all, littering will only matter if the object in concern is not going to eventually break down, and as I read from someone earlier in this to
Proper waste disposal is imperative for concentrated life. If you had a city where there wasn't a proper waste disposal system in place the untended trash that couldn't break down would pile up and prevent flow of people/goods while the stuff that could decompose would create an environment where vermin and disease would thrive.
I know people say that rats spread disease and stuff, but in large cities, how often are you even in contact with a rat, it isn't like you eat them, or pet them, or run around with them, so how would disease get spread, and what disease even? Maybe someone would get bitten by a rat, maybe a hobo would try to eat a rat, but that would be kind of difficult to do, and not a very smart thing anyways. Would someone find out how many people get sick every year or so due to animals in crowded cities?
well you dont get infected only through direct contact with a rat. if it carries a virus, and it puts its fluids into the water(which happens because rats life in the canalisation) you may get sick if drinking the water. there are also insects that feed of rats and human alike and can transmit diseases. as you see it is difficult to give certain numbers, because you cannot really specify which disease was caused by an animal and by which one
yea so today i threw my dunkaroos package on the ground. there was no trash around and i didn't want to get the choclatey sauce all over my arm.. So i threw it on the ground and then stepped on it. Afterwards i did the same with a rice krispies. except that got stuck to my shoe.. I guess thats insta karma. And then it flew away and stuck to some kids back... I guess thats insta karma as well.
1: Threw a Pepsi can on the ground. 2: Threw a hamburger wrapper out of the window of my car. 3: Dropped around 12 or so gum wrappers on the ground. 4: Dropped a twix wrapper in the Tiger Exhibit at the local Zoo. 5: Threw a Coka Cola can right next to a Trash can and missed.
Worst is probably throwing a Styrofoam cup half filled with Vanilla Pepsi outta my cars window, and it hitting the car behind me.
