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.