Waste Management Could Make Big Advance

What about the waste that isn’t recycled?  Something much different will happen with it than now; it won’t be buried or burned.  One practice will be about the same as it is now but more advanced; composting of garden waste.  This will be processed at different times than the other waste or done in another part of the facility.  Much like today, grass clippings that aren’t mulched at home, tree branches, whole trees including Christmas trees, and waste food will be composted to make fertilizer.  But some brand new science will make it better than it can be made now, which will make it more profitable.  The finished compost will be sold to businesses and homeowners for a reasonable price.

Now for anything that can’t be recycled or composted.  With natural chemicals, heat, and other ways the process of decomposition will be mimicked and enhanced; it will go much faster than if left to nature.  Any gases given off could be harnessed.  In the end any solid matter will be reduced to a soil-like form which could be useful for things such as filling in old mine shafts, mixing into road asphalt to make it stronger, improve on field turf, you name it! 

As an important bonus, the facilities will also include water treatment areas for any water that comes in with the waste.  Any moisture that’s included will be channeled down gutters and into pipes that will lead to a reservoir.  Here it will be pumped into a facility that through technology of both man and nature will clean the water of all pollutants and adjust its temperature accordingly before discharging it into rivers, streams or lakes

Now, yes I know this sounds imaginative and even a bit hare-brained; you’ll say this shows an imagination gone wild.  However, many of the things we do commonly were considered like that too by past generations.  This is only a prediction of a possible advance in waste management.  Who can really say what will happen in 20 or more years time?