Trash . . .General Info

Survival Sanitation: Disposing of Garbage Off-Grid
http://tacticalintelligence.net/blog/survival-sanitation-disposing-of-garbage-off-grid.htm

In a SHTF situation, proper sanitation is of utmost importance if you want to keep your family from getting seriously sick. When you add to that a lack of medical facilities due to grid-down issues, staying healthy becomes even more crucial.

In this series I discuss the skills you need to avoid getting and spreading disease, and how to deal with waste and trash when your town and city services are no longer working. ---CONTINUED---

Getting Rid of Trash Safely
http://en.hesperian.org/hhg/A_Community_Guide_to_Environmental_Health:Getting_Rid_of_Trash_Safely

Whatever cannot be reused, recycled, or composted should be gotten rid of safely. Some people say burning trash is best. Others prefer to bury it, to avoid the smoke produced by burning trash. The fact is, both of these ways of disposing of trash have problems.   ---CONTINUED---

A Community Solid Waste Program
http://en.hesperian.org/hhg/A_Community_Guide_to_Environmental_Health:A_Community_Solid_Waste_Program

Once a community has a shared understanding of the problems caused by waste, it can take steps to solve these problems, starting with projects that best meet the community’s needs and abilities.

A complete community solid waste program would include all of these steps (find more about each step on the next few pages):

• Reduce the amount of waste created, especially toxic products and products that cannot be recycled.
  
• Separate wastes where they are made to make them easier and safer to handle.
  
• Compost food scraps and other organic wastes.
  
• Reuse materials whenever possible.
  
• Recycle materials and organize for government and industry to develop community recycling programs.
  
• Collect, transport, and store wastes safely. Respect and pay fair wages to the people who do this work.
  
• Safely dispose of all wastes that cannot be reused or recycled.

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