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.