Question

In the United States, the primary method of disposal of MSW is to _______.

A. collect it at a recycling facility
B. collect it in a sanitary landfill
C. burn it in an incineration facility
D. collect it and ship it to a country that purchases it
E. collect it and compost food and other organic waste

Answer 1

B. Collect it in a sanitary landfill

Step-by-step explanation:

In USA EPA regulated the industrial, commercial, household and manufacturing hazardous and solid wastes as per the 1976 RCRA act (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act).

Effective management of solid waste can be done only with a cooperative effort of state, regional, federal and local entities. Hence the RCRA's solid waste programme encourages the environmental departments to develop plans for managing municipal solid waste and nonhazardous industrial waste.

The main method of disposal is to collect the solid waste in a sanitary landfill, dumping into the sea, open burning, composting, incineration, hog feeding are other methods of disposing municipal solid waste.