Garbology by Edward Humes Ch.2 review

   In Chapter two of Humes writings he takes us back in time to New York city in the 1890's. Here he shares with us how the people of this time period  handled the trash situation. Honestly I feel its no different that how we do it today, only that back then they used pigs to eat there trash and today we use garbage trucks to eat our trash. He also mentions the different methods that people throughout the years came up with to dispose of trash and failed as proper solutions. Some of these methods we still use today, like burning trash, burying trash, even building more landfills. However as Humes says about landfills they eventually get filled up. The thing that surprised me about the landfills in this chapter is the gas that they produce can explode. I would have never thought that working in a landfill could be deadly.

Garbology by Edward Humes Ch.1 review

   Going into reading this novel I really didn't know what to expect. I knew that it was about trash and where it goes, however I had no idea of what it is really doing not only to our society but to our world as well. This might sound a little silly but I always thought that trash burns in landfills and gets melted down into nothing and that this is how the trash situation is fixed. Then again the only reason I believed this to be true was after watching Toy Story 3. Don't get me wrong, trash does get burned in landfills, however it's not a solution to the overflow of trash. What Humes mentions in his writing has just overall shocked me, I didn't know what to make of it. Like how he wrote about the U.S bringing in goods from China that will later contribute to garbage in the landfills; I never looked at it that way before. He also mentions Puente hills landfill, "the largest active municipal dump in the country"(20); I have never herd of this dump before. Its time for us to know what is happening in our world and to see what we can do to save our world from this trash epidemic.

Thinking

Thinking about what to write for Garbology... Well that shouldn't be a problem, there so much to write about. I man who knew that trash could not only kill us but me! I mean our planet as well.
Well I better get brain storming. :0

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