By. Austin Long

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Contacts  Rumpke) Anne K. Gray Municipal Public Sector Representative Rumpke Recycling 5535 Vine Street Cincinnati, Ohio Office: (513) Ext Fax: (513)

Facts about Rome’s waste  1. Rome’s waste went directly into the Tiber River. 2. Rome did not have a good waste management. 3. The reason Rome did have a good waste management is because there were no taxes on it. 4. Paid foreign people to do it so they could get the job done cheaper. 5. Burned their trash witch could cause problems. 6. Due to the draining into the Tiber River they had no fresh water. 7. Had ditches along the sides of the roads to drain into the Tiber River. 8. People threw their waste out all the time and it just stayed there and smelled and it looked bad. 9. Their water was not safe to drink because their trash got dumped into the Tiber River.

Facts about Rumpke and how they deal with the waste  1. Rumpke deals with garbage and recycling so people don’t have to do it themselves or pollute. 2. We Barrie our garbage today for a better environment. 3. A truck comes and gets our garbage and takes care of it. 4. We don’t throw our waste into our river so we can drink from the Ohio River. 5. Rumpke supply’s a garbage can for their followers to store their garbage. 6. Rumpke has its own recycling company so things can be reused. 7. Rumpke also has dumpsters for whole house remodeling. 8. By charging people money to pick up their garbage they have enough money to buy the land to Barrie it under.

Questions?  1.How does Rumpke's trash pickup and waste removal system work? Where does the waste go and how is this done in an eco-friendly manner? 2.About how many tons of garbage do you collect each week? 3.What would you say the percentage of people who recycle in the Cincinnati area is? 4.What positive impacts has the Rumpke trash removal and landfill system had on Cincinnati?

Question Answers  1.Rumpke has a once a week pickup Mon-Fri and they pick up all the waste and dump it into a landfill, and from there it would be burned then buried. 2.Rumpke collects about 5,000 tons a day so for each week it would be around 35,000 tons of garbage. 3.The amount of people who recycle in the Cincinnati area is about 70%. 4.The impact Rumpke had on Cincinnati is that now over 20,00 residents in the Cincinnati area are provided with energy due to recycling.

How To Solve The Problem  A way to solve Roman waste would be to introduce a system called recycling. People could work once a week to pickup people’s trash and try to reuse some items.