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.

Chapter 3

So this week I read chapter 3 , this chapter had some surprises of it own, well to me it was surprising. I learn that most of the objects found on landfills are mostly obhects that aren't fully destroyed or that are still use able . Most of them are stuff being advertised on TV, Big mike says that all these things being advertised end uo in the dumo sooner than people think. I found that very interesting and annoyung because people still keep buying them and trowing them away, what a waste Big Mike say.

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Garbology Chapters 1 & 2

Chapter 1 of Garbology really caught my attention. The reason for that was because it talked about a man named MikeSpeiser, they called Big Mike. He was a very big guy "shaved head, broad shoulders, and a mighty belly, six-two and more than tree hundred pounds. Big Mike helped build  the Puente HIlls landfill,which is the largest active dump in the country. what surprised me about this was that Puente Hills has been a daily flow of garbage for more than tree decades- 130 million tons of it and counting. what interested me was the big bulldozer Mike would use to create the mountain or dump how he would organize it. It was fourteen-foot-tall, thirty-foot,swivel-hipped bulldozer that can turn on a dime yet push its terrain- cleaning blade with 100,000 pounds of force. it has six foot wheels that had spikes like dinosaur-sized steel teeth, that crushed, molded and squeezed up to 13,000 tons of garbage into a fifteen-foot-deep rectangle the size of a football field. what annoyed me the most was finding out that we have been making so much trash that we don't have anywhere to put it. what are we going to do?

Chapter 2 of Garbology just like on chapter one the amount of trash surprised me because earlier practice of New Yorkers was simply dumping garbage from a wooden platform over the East River, which was later discontinued. Garbage was everywhere on the busy streets of New York, food waste, ashes, human waste, and a bunch of animal droppings. Primarily from the 120,000 horses in the road. which also interested me because "everyday those horses deposited around 1,200 tons of manure and 60,000 gallons of urine on the cobbles and asphalt of New York". I find that so annoying because the owners should be cleaning after then if they are going to run a type of business or just going to ride the horses they should maintain the streets clean.