Garbage patch has increased

An article "Scripps Study Shows Plastic in Pacific Garbage Patch Has Increased 100-Fold" by Leon Kaye talks about a study that was released by some researchers at "San Diego's Scripps Institution Oceanography", that claims that plastic has increased by 100 timesthe anount it was 40 years ago. the article talks about all the problems that are accuring because of this. It goes from small insects laying eggs on pieces of trash, that are the size of Texas,  and also how "SEAPLEX and Scripps completed another research project showing that nine percent of 141 varieties of fish that live within the Pacific Garbage Patch had plastic in their stomachs." Which is bad thise fishes end up being eaten by us and the trash that was ate by them is now in our system which could cause harm to our bodies.

Isonomia

   Today I read an article Isonomia by Chris Cullen , at first this article was a little confusing to me , but as I kept reading It became more clear. I found something very interesting in this article which was that there was a "Rapid increases in recycling have resulted in overcapacity, and a number of energy from waste (EfW) facilities have already closed." (Qtd. Art.) But many of the facilities are being moved to homes for the use of heat distribution networks. According to the article closing these facilities would not just cause a problem for investors, or more electricity would nees to be generated, but it would mean that a lot of pwople wouldnt have heat and would be left on the cold. That is why in the article it say that is an "understandably strong motivation to secure feedstock." This was very interesting I didnt know this before.

No-burn

The article i read titled Incinerators by Gaia , it talked about how "Burning waste has many negative environmental, social and health consequences." There 8s a paragraph that says that incinerators waste more energy that destroy in big amounts, it say that incinerating trash isnt as good as they say. Incineration waates more energy than it produces and cause more pollution on the planet but I feel like that isnt truw because the goverment is creating incinerators that are pollution controlled.  And I also feel that it is better to burn the trash than just have it build up here in our dumpes because while we are dumping trash and pilling up ,burning and creating energy,  would be best because it gets it out and makes more space.

Chapter 8

My reading on chapter 8 this week was quit interesting because this chapter started off talking about an archeologist, Bill Rathje, noticing some kind of guacamole still in its perfectly green color, while drilling threw the layers of trash. This guacamole was 25 years old and still green which was very odd because when I would leave avocado out for just a few hours it would start to turn to this brown ,black , like color,  for this guacamole to preserve its color was very interesting. As still I continued reading it talked about a machine called the bucket augur which was simply a drill but this drill was what helped Rathje explore the inner space of our landfills. So many thing are being talked about in this chapter. It talked about a projected called The Garbage Project which was founded by Rathje and the idea of his students , to track to homes trash and were would they end up. These trashes would get tracked with little tracking devices. What was very interesting was that all this trash would travel so much before even entering the landfills , there was an ink cartridge being traxked that traveled on plane amd back before being able to enter the landfill thats a lot of money being wasted on something like that.

Chapter 7

Well today I read chapter 7 of Garbology by Edward Humes , it was titled The Trash Trackere, this chapter was very interesting , well to me atleast. This chapter started out asking some questions that really made me think, " What would happen if your trash could talk?, what would happen if all thw stuff we buy, use and ultimately throw away- a carton of milk, a computer keyboard,  a case of beer , a color TV- could be aware of its surroundings and stream tha5 information to us, forming a vast network of objects, a kind of Internet of stuff."  This really caught my attention because it made me thing of what would really happen what wouod we find out if this was to happen? As I continued to read it tured out that people have actually began tracking trash. SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  inspired by Sterling's vision, decided to create smart trash ( Humes 146) . They put something like a tracking devise on pieces of trash, and this would track the trash, some trash appeared like a mile away from where it originally came from. This chapter was very interesting.

Article #2

The joy of garbage is an article o read over this weekend. It was really interesting. It was much like the book "Garbology" by Edward Humes. It gave a lot of fact about trash nd what we throw away bu what I found a little different was that the article said The average American produces 4.4 pounds of household waste per day, which calculates to 1600 pounds per year, and on the book by Edward Humes said on average americans produce 7 pounds of trash. My question there is who has the most accurate information? I found the part where its says " If we could evolve from a “throw away” economy, what would it look like?" That really caught my attention because it made me think what would happen if we suddenly stop thowing away everything for anything, will our world have a chance at living longer will we have a chance to survive our own tash making mistakes? , it made me really think. In all I really have began to think about trash differently.

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Article

So I read the article my professor gave us to read, and it was very interesting , it was mainly and interview of Mr. Edward Humes. Terry Gross , Humes' interviewer, ask Mr. Humes a lot of interesting question. For example "You say Americans throw away more trash that anyone, how much more is it?" Edwards responses where the same facts he gave in his book. But while going through this article what I read and what surprised me was that the Puente Hills Landfill was not only the bugest but has been around for over 60 years now, and it keeps growing fast , its at 500 feet tall! "It actually filled a valley that used to be a dairy farm and is now a mountain built of trash". So many intersting an annoying things it talks about, but one of the really intersting parts I read was that we use the greenhouse gas produced by the dumbs to make energy, but the really annoying part is that if we want energy as a goal, we should be using the trash that we are putting in the dumps and using them in power plants and we would be creating morw energy with the same amount of trash. It was really intersting learn thing I didnt know..

Posted 5 days ago just in the wrong place.