What would happen if never threw out garbage?

Answer 1

Your home would eventually fill up with smelly refuge, that would attract rats and could cause disease. In times past, people threw their garbage into the street. There was usually a trough that aligned through the street for rain water and such. Of course, we have much more garbage now with packaging and waste of food. Other trash was often buried in their yard, or in a trash heap outside of the village. The study of garbage is garbagology, and much information about how people lived in prehistoric and historic times has been gained. William Rathje at the University of Arizona was an early investigator.

Answer 2

Never throwing out garbage is the ideal case of a mindful consumer. Most of the material we presently throw out as "garbage" is potentially reusable, repairable, or recyclable. Much of the material we bring into the house is useless packing, excessive food that we will not eat or non-reparable consumer goods.So what would happen if you never threw out garbage? You would adopt a lifestyle where you would:

• Buy simple food (raw meats, veggies and such) at a rate that you can consume them all and that have almost no waste and which you bring home in reusable bags or boxes to eliminate packaging waste
  
• Ensure that tools and appliance would be simple and are operable so they would have many decades of use before being replaced and the broken equipment would be recycled as scrap metal, glass and plastic
  
• Buy, or make clothing that would be simple and durable, Outgrown clothing would be repurposed of donated to recycling or clothing drives.
  
• Have facilities so that any paper, plastic or metal wastes would be collected and recycles.
  
• Use kitchen scraps as compost offed to feed animals
  
• Grown fruits and vegetables and perhaps protein (chicken etc.) to replace purchased food