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社会工作专业英语结课论文 学期：2010-2011-1 年级：社会工作08级 即将被垃圾埋葬的文明社会 A Society to Be Buried in Garbage 姓名：陈启龙 学号：班级：社会工作0801 A Society to Be Buried in Garbage Abstract: An affluent society is now burying itself ever-garbage. This is not fantasy, but stark reality. This article will tell us a true reality of the relationship garbage and human in United States. It is really a warning to us in China. Key words: society; garbage; buried us; solve the problem In the United States, the residents discard garbage at a rate of 720 million tons a year at large, or in other words, ten thousand people produce enough garbage in a single year to cover a football field to a height of 15 feet. The monumental increase in the amount of garbage creates a terrible burden on municipal governments. Most cities still dispose of their waste by throwing it on open dumps or burning it in runs out of the dumps pollutes streams and underground water supplies. The more serious crisis is that the nation is now running out of space for dump sites. Incineration is a major source of air pollution. From the standpoint of public health, efficiency of operations and protection of natural resources, land-disposal operations and municipal incinerators now in use are unsatisfactory. Ocean disposal means dumping garbage into the sea some miles offshore. As reported, a “dead sea” was created 12 miles south to Long Island off New Jersey coast. A 20-square-mile area of muddy brown water was so befouled that it could no longer support marine life. On the western coast, San Francisco has been forced to dump its garbage into the San Francisco Bay, which is threatening to destroy fishing and to fill the bay itself. Yet bleak as this picture may appear, new technology and idea for treating solid waste are under way. A plant was built at Cambridge, Mss., to compress garbage with tremendous pressure into small bales that can be dumped into land-fills or used to reclaim land from rivers and even from the ocean