Solutions

Mandatory recycling with all of the renewable items can pay for paying another town to take care of the garbage.
 * Solution Page created by Colby and Nick**
 * Quick Ideas**

A carry in carry out policy which is the same with the National Park system for the beaches and areas along the river would be a helpful law. Paying a nearby town to dispose of the garbage.

Simply don’t save things out use less packaging · Save takeout containers - use them for other things · Metal Cans can have many uses · Find new uses for bottles - reuse to store other items, sell them for money for towns solid waste program · Donate old magazines or surplus equipment · Reusing boxes - decorate with old pictures, magazine and newspaper items · Turn empty jars into containers for leftover food, for odd screws, nuts & bolts · Use card board boxes to keep all of your smaller storage devices in so you don't lose them [|Basgo map final .doc] This file is of a map and we have added a mark for a possible landfill site if we need to construct one. This site would work because it's secluded from housing and the farthest site away from water creating less of a chance for pollution.


 * Solutions from Possible Issues Page**

For example, say one person thought oh its only one battery or its only a soda bottle, what if everybody thought like this? That was an example of how litter can become a big problem. The solution to this would be carry in carry out policies and not resulting to do this would lead to fines.
 * Taking care of litter**: Litter can be a large issue since over time all of the little things that litter usually is can amount to a major problem.


 * Where trash would go**: The trash would probably not stay in the town, the trash would be taken to the regional landfill this would be done by a neighboring town. To pay for this we would use renewable/sellable resources to cover any payment.


 * Pollution**: If we constructed a landfill we would have the basic layer, also we would have wells around the landfill to monitor contamination of the underground streams. To deal with the above ground runoff we would have the landfill be set up as a ditch and if this would not be possible we would have drains surrounding the landfill where all water would go which could include any possibly contamintated water from escaping. Also following the water exiting into the drains it would then go into a storage tank which we could empty (after removing possible contaminents) into a stream.


 * Landfill:** The placement of a landfill would not be a problem because we would not have one in the town. If we needed one on the file Basgo map final (above) it shows possible landfill sites.


 * Municipal Incinerator**: This would be a form of removing our garbage, yet it would cause problems with the atmosphere from all of the bad chemicals and other harmful items being burned and sent through the atmosphere. So we would probably not construct one.


 * Household Garbage**: Household garbage comes from your home such as soda bottles pizza boxes and other items that you may use in your life. Any garbage that would rot could be put into your compost bin or the town would have many compost bins where it could decay and become rich soil. With bottles and other non decaying garbage we would recyle these.


 * Laws**: The town of Basgo has to make up a system of laws to help lead their actions towards a cleaner environment. A couple of laws that should be passed are these. No one is allowed to bring trash such as bottles, wrappers and bags into an area such as a BASGO National Park. This would help a lot with animal health and pollution. No animals would die from choking on trash or cutting themselves on a bottle. This would downsize the pollution in the air and in the water. The trash would not blow into the water and dirty it up and the air would not be polluted by lots of trash fumes billowing into the air. Another law is no throwing out recyclable resources. This would save a lot of time and space for the people of Basgo. The third law should be no smoking near forested areas. This will kill fewer animals and save a lot of tress from burning down in a forest fire. It should also be mandatory that everyone has a compost pile. The compost pile would downsize trash more because fruits, vegetables meats and other quick biodegradable garbage would not clog fill up the landfills.
 * This Paragraph was done by Nick**