ABSTRACT
With the development of large urban populations and industry, accumulating wastes have become a major problem for society. This chapter considers the wastewaters, air wastes, and solid wastes and ways of recycling for reuse or beneficial return to environment. As populations and economic development increased in Florida, conditions began to become hazardous and detrimental to the economy, decreasing the standards of living, interfering with tourism, and requiring increased taxes to deal with the mess. Simpler agrarian society recycled the wastes of human society back to agriculture. Some industrial wastes are purified in ways similar to sewage by passing the waters through a series of ecosystems. Better ways of processing solid wastes are now being used in Florida. At the international environmental congress in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the concern about global change was so great that there were movements to restrict world fuel consumption to reduce the production of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
