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By the time garbage is deposited, it is often radically transformed through methods such as incineration, which reduce volume and facilitate its burial, while generating energy in the process. On Mondays and Thursdays (or Tuesdays and Fridays, depending on where you live in the city) in spring and summer, the Gaeta Recycling truck stops on the sidewalk to pick up garbage. With current consumer habits, more than half of all garbage ends up in one of the more than 3,000 landfills in the country. Once garbage reaches Pennsylvania, the solid waste decomposes and generates methane gas, which is collected with giant fans.

The first step, of course, involves picking up trash from neighborhood trash bins and trash cans.