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Why is the world producing so much garbage? Garbage is an

unavoidable result of consumption. And to __1__ the high standard of

living that has been reached in many industrialized countries, we

must continue to consume, as the consumption keeps the wheel of

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industry turning. We use the rapidly disappearing natural resources of

the earth to feed the machines of industry, which __2__ produce

endless quantities of consumer goods. What we haven’t been able to

do, however, is to find a successful way to __3__ all the by-products

of industry and the products themselves when they are used up, worn

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out, or outdated.

One of the biggest causes of the garbage problem is the world’s

exploding population. More and more people mean more and more

waste. Before the industrial revolution, when the world population

was very small, the problem of garbage did not exist. Whatever waste

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was produced then could be absorbed by the earth without __4__

nature’s balance, but nature can no longer cope with the amount of

garbage that is currently being produced.