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.