Our Leaking Landfills When people started farming about 10,000
years ago, they mostly gave up their wandering, hunting,
gathering lives and settled down. With all those people living
in one place for a long time, they started to build up a lot of
garbage. This was how the first garbage dumps were born. People
have been making garbage dumps for as long as they have been
living in one place. Even Native Americans from thousands of
years ago, after a big buffalo hunt, would leave behind a pile
of garbage that was as big as dumps today. As early as 500 b.c.
it's believed that the Greeks created dumps outside of their
cities. Amazingly, many of those ancient dumps are now important
archeological sites! You can learn a lot about a people from
what is in their garbage dumps. What Can Be Done to Make Less
Trash? There are many ways people can make less trash. This
helps cut down on the amount of trash going into our landfills,
but it also helps us use fewer new resources, like trees, water,
and oil. You might think t