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.
