A Mathematician, a Different Kind of Mathematician, and a Statistician
Del. Terri Hill has recently proposed legislation that would give the Howard County Council the ability to impose a nominal tax on disposable bags. The Sun did a write up on it: Proposal would allow Howard County to impose a plastic bag tax Democrat Terri Hill plans to introduce a
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When we put stuff into a landfill, the general expectation is that we will never have to see it again. Of course, it is not that simple. Much of the matter in a landfill is organic, food wastes, paper, and the like, and it will start to decompose. And there
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One of the more interesting anaerobic processes is the breakdown of municipal solid waste in landfills. I grew up not far from what we called Rumpke Mountain, the sixth largest landfill in the United States. Landfills typically require venting because anaerobic processes consume the solid waste within the landfill, producing
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The United States has used a variety of methods to reduce solid waste disposal over the last few decades. Solid waste has grown, by roughly 200 percent since 1960, while the population has increased by only about 50 percent over the same period. So it is important to reduce solid
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