What is Garbage ?
To answer this question is not as easy as it is thought. In daily life, it is
impossible to cram the definition of "garbage" ,
solid waste, and to restrict it by some names and materials. In fact, a person, an agency and
an institution who
produces, throws, collects, categorises, uses and removes "garbage" could be defined separately in respect of their
social, economic and
cultural structures of settlements where the garbage is produced.
The ones
who produces and throws solid waste think that anything that means nothing
to them is garbage. For
example, garbage is something to eat, to produce food
and beverage out of vegetable, fruit and other food,
something of no use in
production or consumption, goods to be dysfunctional and materials of no value.
Garbage is orange peel, a piece of bread, rotten tomato, bad apple, broken
chair, broken iron, expired drugs, batteries,
glass bottles, cups, paper, toys, packaging materials, excrement of pet cats and dogs. Majority of the organic
materials that "mean nothing" in this respect and thrown as "garbage" are
considered as nutritionally high but cheap
"animal feeding stuff" and
excrement of animal is considered as "fertilizer" in countryside and in
the suburbs.
Everything that is left to "garbage dumps" and required to be removed without harming the human health and the
environment is "garbage" in the eyes of a person, an agency and an institution charged with collecting
removing the garbage, whatever its type, quality or quantity is.It is possible to generally define garbage as solid
materials and purifying
mud to be regularly removed in order to protect the environment and enable
public health and
peace in this context.
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