Municipal Waste Management
Garbage In, Garbage Out?
Despite all the technological progress we have made, we are still collecting waste door-to-door, transporting the majority of it to an out-of-the-way place, and covering it with dirt.
Pollution
Rivers Don’t Catch on Fire Anymore
It’s getting harder to determine how we are affecting the environment—especially with regard to discharges into streams, rivers, estuaries, and the ocean. All the easy things have been done; it’s getting more and more complicated.