Interview with Edward Humes

The interview of Edward Humes was the summary of his first three chapters. His  asked a variety of questions in which he answers with his opinions and some facts based on his research. I was surprised how plastic was crushed down into tiny pieces and released by wind and spread everywhere. The surprise part was that fish tend to eat it as if it was plankton and when we eat fish we consume plastic and other chemicals. In this article, I expected more descripted detail but its all a recap of his book. Its also surprising to know that plastic bags are recent, and not history. plastic bags were introduced in 1950, and to this day many of them are flying up in the air. Knowing that plastic bags fly away i have purchased my own little re-usable bag and I leave it in the car. Another thing that surprised me, was when Humes mentions that the garbage gas can create electricty and light up about 70,000 homes in the area. as I read Humes interview, I thought about the electricty because  that would be an advantage of our waste but maybe its not as powerful to light up for a long time. http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=150735732

Garbology Ch.3

Walking through a local restaurants trash can, I realized how easy it was for the wind to lift up a wrapper and fly it away. Just like in chapter  three, Humes tells us that many people confuse plastic bags to flying bird. It's annoying when people aim for the trash can and miss and don't go to pick it up. I also found surprising how a landfill can be used to hide criminal  evidence, and get rid of a dead body. It's sad to know that Robert Benneth body is buried in Puente Hills landfill, buried under a mountain pile of garbage. I think it's disrespectful to find trash on the ground next to a trash can. It's also surprising to know that many people are in debt, for things that are probably in the garbage by now. If we see trash in the ground we don't pick it up because it wasn't our trash, but if we think about pollution is affecting our plant.

Garbology intro. Chapter 1 & 2

   I never had an interest about garbage, until I realized how we can all become instant hoarders and how we accumulate many things we don't even need. In the introduction we are illustrated two short hoarder story's. The Gaston, an elderly couple who were saved on time before they were buried under their own trash, but unfortunately, the Collyen's brothers died from starvation and collapse of garbage. It's surprising that by average an individual can throw away "102 tons of trash a year". I multiplied 102 by my age and concluded that I have thrown away approximately 1800 tons of trash during my life and yet, I don't understand what I have thrown away that has created so much trash.
   In chapter one, we are introduced "largest active municipal dump in the country"  Puente Hills created by mike sSpeiser known as "big Mike"(20).Eventhough, Puente Hills is a sanitized landfill it doesn't make a difference because our trash is still there.Our trash can be cover by dirt after its "crushed and compacted"but that still doesnt make our trash disapear. Its surprising to know that our trash creates pills of mountains everyday. Before our landfills many people would throw their trash out their window and onto the ground, well people still do, but it would be dangerous back then because animals like rats would munch on the crums and fleas would create a plague and people would get sick. Theirs still many animals today that can create plague and harm the community, for example, seagulls fly around looking for left over food, cockroaches tend to go into homes looking for food, especially in a hoarders home. I can't imagine where our trash would go if we didn't have landfills, I asked myself, what would I do if we didn't have landfills, and garbage systems? I conclude that I would burn it and bury it, but then again I would still be polluting our environment by the smoke and ashes. It's annoying to think that we don't have a solution to where we should put our waste Dumps, car smog, hair products, and other chemicals create
   In chapter two, in the early twentieth century, New York is decribed as a dump. Colonel George E. Warning a "Civil War veteran" help clean New York streets with the help of a group known as the "white Wings"(43). If California was messy I would volunteer to clean my nieghborhood. Its wierd thinking that New York would be messy since its a state that is visted, especially durning new years. Its intresting to think that garbage system  has change many things. for example, know we place our trash in garbage bins. Warning did three garbage bins: one to throw away all ash, second one for food waste, and the third bin for rubbish items, just like Warning had three bins my family had them too. In Riverside county, each house  was  given three bins: one is for food waste just like Warning, the other is for recycling such as bottles, plastic, boxes, and the last bin is for dry, wreaked leaves, cut grass or wood material. Having a clean environment sound like a dream, but if we commite to having it clean we can do it, especially if we consume less we can decrease our thrash. its funny knowing that many "parks, zoos,lakes,golf course, museuns, and other national projects" are on top of what used to be a local dump.