Lets talk about Trash!!

Calling all Enviros, Engineers and people who like make trash into treasures! (You know you have to fall into ONE of those categories!!)

I want to talk about trash! Of course it would be better if we didnt have to...but its something that we are all excellent at creating but most of us really dont know what to do with it! And I can tell you from personal experience in Paraguay - its an international issue! So what do you do with it? Burn it, throw it over the fence, you certainly cant flush it all or feed it to your dog. So what do you do? Yes - Im asking you.

I want to know what to do with our trash, the trash of Horqueta, Paraguay. (and unfortuantley I mean more than all of the political propaganda!)

Alright, here is the skinny:

Horqueta, Paraguay has a landfill. It was created with the intentions of being a sanitary landfill. It has currently three ditches that are open and being filled. I am unsure of the contents of each. I believe there are two general ditches and one for pathological trash. In the US we incinerate hospital trash - that is not an option here - there are not incinerators. So here is what I am looking for:

Technical, here is how a landfill should run info (if you have developing world info that would be great, cause Im not sure how different American landfills are to Paraguayan landfills!)
Info on trash and recyclying programs that have worked in other places in the world.
Any sort of trash, landfill, recycling info that is out there.
Im actually not sure what I want - I just know I need to learn some more!
So...if you can help me out! Send it my way!


Thanks for your help!
I hope you are all well!
-rachel