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Risks & Choices, Center for Chemistry Education, Miami University (Ohio) Permission granted to copy for classroom use InformationAn Introduction to Solid WasteManagement and the EnvironmentHumans have always produced trash and have always disposed of it in some way, so solidwaste management is not a new issue. What has changed are the types and amounts ofwaste produced, the methods of disposal, and the human values and perceptions of whatshould be done with the past, refuse was typically discarded in the most convenient manner possible withlittle regard to its effects on human health or the environment. Before modern notions ofhygiene developed, city streets were typically open sewers that bred diseases such as choleraand dysentery. Even until the middle of the twentieth century, household trash was commonlydisposed of and burned in open dumps that were neighborhood eyesores, emitted offensiveodors, and attracted rats and other vermin.

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