One's Trash is Another's Treasure

There are so many disadvantages to the way that we fuel our everyday needs. Oil and gasoline are causing huge problems in our world today. Gasoline is made from crude-oil which is a natural resource that is rapidly becoming scarce. Most experts agree that at least half of the recoverable oil on our planet has already been used. At the rate that we are consuming it, it will only take about 40 more years for it to completely disappear. It is obvious that we must find a safe, reliable and logical alternative to gasoline. I believe that if we could somehow find a way to turn our everyday trash into an all-purpose fuel to power all of our luxuries that we have today, all of our worries about gasoline would disappear.
Eighty percent of the garbage that the world produces goes into landfills. To the naked eye, they seem like a pretty good place for our waste and garbage; but if you look a little further into it, the cons of landfills definitely outweigh the pros. To make a landfill, one must destroy wildlife and trees. Landfills produce bad odors and they are an eyesore to all people that are forced to see them. Another disadvantage of landfills is that the runoff can pollute area rivers and streams. Although all pollution would not be extinct, making trash into an all purpose fuel would cut down on air pollution and pollution of our environment noticeably.

It wouldn't be very expensive to produce and it would be very efficient. In addition to the other benefits of alternative fuel, making an inflammable fuel would make operating and riding in vehicles less dangerous. Sometimes the gasoline that drivers use to fuel their cars with can catch on fire because of an accident. Another safe factor about this new kind of fuel is that it would not be flammable, therefore it would make driving in general safer. The first step in creating this new system of fueling would be establishing factories where the trash could be turned into fuel. There would have to be many different labs for changing different kinds of trash into fuel. For example, paper products and glass products could not possibly be in the same lab since their make ups are so different.

Instead of garbage men taking the garbage to the dump on their pick-up days, they would take it to the factory. In turn for trash, the companies could form some sort of debit system where for every bag of trash the provider donates, the provider receives a free gallon of fuel.
As the system gets more and more advanced, it could be possible to someday make self-serve centers. At these centers, customers would first put their trash into the machine. The machine would then separate all of the different kinds of trash and then make them all into fuel. The customer would then fuel the car with his or her own garbage. I feel as if this invention would stop many problems we have with gasoline today and it would benefit our society in many ways.
by Emily D'Atri from http://www.helium.com/items/368682-recycling-effect-on-cost-consumption-of-gasoline-energy