CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla just debuted a new special on the business of garbage Trash Inc.
Here are the high points:
The way New York City handles garbage is nothing short of amazing. The bad news, they truck it all over the country.
Recycling reclaims barely over 20% of our refuse. We COULD resuse 80%.
Landfill operators are experimenting with ways to covert garbage to energy. Methane gas, electricity via incineration, and liquid fuel for vehicles are a few of the things being attempted
China’s garbage problem is immense.
Trash ends up in the ocean via stream runnoff as much as willful dumping. There are 5 areas of the oceans that are badly polluted. Trash wases up on shore in Hawaii. Mother nature is grinding the plastic into sand.