In Terms of Waste Management Practices, It Was Normal Practice In the Late 1800S to Send Barges
Loaded With Municipal Rubbish Out to Sea For Open Disposal. Regular Waste Disposal into the Water
Suggests That There Was Little Awareness of or Concern For the Effects on the Ecosystem. the Fresno
Sanitary Landfill Was Constructed In 1937 Before There Was a Big Change from Open Dumping. Reducing
Solid Waste Means Less Garbage Ends Up In Landfills. the Most Popular Ways to Reduce Landfill Waste Are
To Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Landfill Waste Is a Major Issue Since It Affects Both the Economy and The
Ecology, and Also Because It Takes Thousands of Years For Landfill Material to Decompose, Rendering
Several Acres of Land That Could Have Been Used For New Industrial or Residential Colonies Essentially
Unusable.