Garbage Disposal

I prefer to let mine go free range so nature can deal with it how it sees best.

Why don't you stop creating it in the first place, Auntie?

The trick is to separate and categorize your waste streams...Recycle that which can be, compost that which seems ripe, destroy that which is toxic and hazardous or too plentiful via plasma arc torch or plasma gasification....

http://www.plasmawastedisposal.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification

The surprising simple answer is in fact "landfill".

How about all the other rubbish, the stuff we are fed day in day out? Where would that go?

Poor turtles.

No, that does not work....Landfills produce pollution and toxic by products, and eventually fill to capacity...If you continue to landfill your waste, you will be buried in your own waste....

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/26/us/la-trash-puente-landfill/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_Kills_Landfill

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2310546/PayatasThe-Story-of-a-Tragedy

The simple answer is Landfills do work (with conditions), and studies have shown there is plenty of unused (non-productive land) space for them (no I don't have the links). We won't ever run out of space for landfills (although we may have to transport the trash a little further), and in some cases land reclamation works fine (as long as the landfill has been properly designed, maintained and decommissioned).

The less than simple answer also includes all the additional riders such as recycling (some of which works, some of which is a total waste of time), storing really toxic substances (rather than putting them in the same landfill), not putting the landfill near the water table (obviously), minimising waste in the first place, etc, etc.

The plain truth is that Most landfills are not well designed or well maintained and are full of toxic and hazardous waste...The majority of them leak leachate into the ground and they all produce hazardous and carcinogenic fumes...Although the designs and maintenance schedules look good on paper, in actual practice they fall short...I might add that no matter how much land you seem to think is available for landfilling, it is finite in nature, as are the resources being used to produce the waste...

http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/Landfills.htm

Cannot argue with you there (mostly), but poor design and maintenance are not my problem.

The best site I worked on was a landfill (located right next to a country club of all things).