History of Trash
The first "dump truck," which appeared in the 1800s
What is a horse-drawn carriage/cart?
The number of total layers in a landfill
10
___ makes up 27% of the landfill's contents
What are Paper and Paperboard?
Two ways to avoid sending waste to a landfill
What are Recycling and Composting?
How much trash does an Austinite generate per day?
5.78 pounds
Many coastal cities dumped their trash here
What is the ocean?
The bottom two layers in a landfill
What are the Clay and GeoMembrane layers?
___ and ___ do not break down or decompose in a landfill
What are Plastic and Glass?
The City of Austin wants to achieve the Zero-Waste Initiative by ____ (year)
2040
How many years are left until Austin's landfills are full
Approximately 20 years
In the 1900s, many communities began to establish ___ to get rid of large portions of their waste
What are piggeries?
The top two layers of a landfill
What are the Vegetative and Protective covers?
These can be recycled instead of taken to a landfill
What are Paper and Paperboard, Plastics, Metals, and Glass?
The City of Austin is trying to divert ___% of all waste away from landfills
90%
How many years are left before Texas' landfills reach capacity
Approximately 56 years
In the 1910s, the first commercialized ____ began
What is recycling?
The Gravel layer and Pipes help filter and transport ___ to a collection system outside the landfill
What is leachate?
These could be composted instead of taken to a landfill
What are Paper and Paperboard, Food Scraps, Yard Trimmings, and Wood?
You can take clothing, shoes, accessories, toys, linens, and housewares to ___ for reuse or recycling
What is Austin Resource Recovery (ARR)?
Leachate is _______
Liquid that drains or leaches from waste in the landfill
Toxins mixed with rainwater from decomposing waste
The EPA began setting standards for _____, which would become the modern-day landfill
What are sanitary landfills?
The Protective Cover forms a "cap" that prevents this from escaping and causing a trash explosion
What is methane gas?
Almost ___ of everything residential customers throw in the landfill is compostable material
50% or half
This type of composting uses worms to turn organic materials intro nutrient-rich soil
What is Vermicomposting?
Burning trash in incinerators releases ____ into the atmosphere