1. America even has too much garbage dump capacity, thanks to the fact that we have been building large regional dumps to replace older, smaller local dumps.
    美国的垃圾倾卸能力非常强，因为美国人一直在修建大型区域性垃圾场，以取代陈旧的小型地方性垃圾场。

2. As new households form, they create additional garbage.
    随着新家庭的形成，将产生更多的生活垃圾。

3. Since then, every society has had to figure out what to do with its waste — something that is usually unhealthy, smelly, and ugly — throwing garbage in the streets, piling it up just outside of town, building it into structures or simply setting it o
    此后，每个社会都要想办法解决垃圾问题——处理那些通常是有害的、难闻的、难看的东西——要么把垃圾扔到街上，要么堆在城外，要么掺在建筑结构里，要么干脆付之一炬。

4. Piles of garbage and raw sewage would create epidemics, perhaps even recurrences of plague.
    一堆堆垃圾和未经处理的污物可能引起流行病，甚至会再发生瘟疫。

5. My family knows, but my wife's folks don't. If someone comes right out and asks, 'Do you drive for a garbage company?' I say yes.
    我家里人知道，可我妻子的亲友不知道。如果有人跑出来问，‘你不是给垃圾公司开车吗？’我就说是。

6. In Baltimore, a long strip of land (which was used for dumping garbage) is becoming a series of biking and walking trails.
    在巴尔的摩，曾被用来倾倒垃圾的一长条土地正变成一条条自行车道和步行道。