Nowadays the increased amount of garbage (waste) is a real concern

Nowadays the increased amount of garbage (waste) is a real concern. Why is this happening? What can be done to resolve this? Production of goods and services will always come out with waste material. And the more we produce, the more waste we generate. The increase of population, and the increase of the people' purchasing power, and the development of society in general all contributed to the continuing build-up of global waste. And as long as we progress, the only realistic thing that we can do is to minimize waste, instead of removing them completely. I will categorize the resolutions into two. The first one is individual resolution, through reusing and recycling. Even when we are kids we are told to do these things, specially on plastics, simple because it does not degrade well. Recycling and reusing are good ideas but they can only help in a certain degree as a whole. It has little effect on waste management, but it is has more personal connections with people, which make it look like it has a lot of impact in mainstream media as well as in social media. The second one is thru laws of states to reduce waste. Concrete recent examples are laws to ban single use plastics and laws to reduce overall carbon footprint. This I think is more important because it will reduce waste in order of magnitude compared to individual resolution, but at the expense of small revenue loss of few companies and organizations. In conclusion, both solutions is important and should work together side by side to attain the goal of minimizing waste all over the world.