The department suddenly had to figure out what to do with the 13,000 tons of household garbage added each day to the artificial mountain.
All household garbage in the county is picked up, either by commercial concerns or by municipalities.
In the two towns, recycling alone had diverted about 40 percent of household garbage by weight.
Pundits say that those who compost reduce their household garbage by 25 percent.
Only 3 percent of that is household garbage; most comes from industry, agriculture, sewage plants and incinerators.
According to the article, these include fossil fuels, traffic and household garbage.
Removal of Cesium from household garbage also had a few experimental runs.
Latex paint, for example, should be dried and disposed of with household garbage.
Garbage can be really gross, but most household garbage is not dangerous.
We will reduce the amount of household garbage and try to recycle it.