1. By: Jake McFarland

2. Here you will find out how to solve a poor waste management problem in Ancient Rome

3. Don’t know much about modern day waste management and/ or ancient Roman waste management? Well consider these next two helpful slides !!!!

4. 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 it. 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 barie it under. Some fun facts about modern day waste management:

5. 1. Rome did not have a good waste management. 2. The reason Rome did not have a good waste management is because there were no taxes to pay for it. 3. Rome paid foreign people to do it so they could get the job done cheaper. 4. All waste was drained into the Tiber River. 5. Due to the draining into the Tiber River they had no fresh water to drink from. 6. Cut ditches along the sides of the roads to drain into the river. 7. The Roman people threw their waste out all the time and it just stayed there and smelled and it looked bad. Some fun facts about the waste management in ancient Rome:

6. Rumpke : I called them because they are the most successful garbage company in the Cincinnati area. Someone to call for more information about garbage

7. 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 ? Questions for Rumpke

8. 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 it had on Cincinnati is that now over 20,00 residents in the Cincinnati area are provided with energy due to recycling. Answers to Questions after call

9. Rome is a very large city, therefore they must use a lot of plastic, metal, and copper. But what did they do after they had gotten there use out of these materials? They threw them away. Why would you throw something away when you could just as easily put it in a bin and have it RECYCLELED? Recycling is to Convert waste into reusable material or to Return a material to a previous stage in a cyclic process. By doing this process there would not be as much garbage laying around at all compared to what it would be like if they still proceed to not recycle. How to solve this roman problem is the most simple yet efficient way

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